White House's Susie Wiles was blindsided by Trump pardon of cocaine kingpin: report

Donald Trump’s aggressive use of his presidential pardon powers has reached such a fevered pitch that some White House insiders are getting nervous about blowback that they are not prepared to push back on.

According to a deep dive from the Wall Street Journal’s Rebecca Ballhaus, Josh Dawsey and C. Ryan Barber on the almost weekly presidential announcements of commutations and pardons flying out of the Oval Office, some of the high-profile cases were not vetted and flew under the radar of even some White House insiders.