Trump's pardons cost government $1.5 billion: expert

The massive number of pardons and clemencies President Donald Trump has issued during his second term has cost the federal government at least $1.5 billion in penalty payments, according to one expert.

Liz Oyer, a former pardon attorney at the Department of Justice, estimated in a new Substack essay on Tuesday that the more than 1,600 pardons and clemencies Trump has granted have caused the government to forfeit more than $1.56 billion in fines, restitution, and forfeitures. That included...