'60 Minutes' Airs Misleading Report on Trump Pardons
Critics say the segment left out key context about the pardons and fueled questions about CBS News’ editing and framing.
- Veteran CBS reporter Lesley Stahl alleged on '60 Minutes' that President Trump created a 'pardon economy,' claiming the system bypasses the Justice Department's normal review process for presidential pardons.
- Undercover recordings showed conservative activists Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl claiming they could sell pardon access for $300,000, with Stahl presenting the pair as influential 'pardon brokers' to viewers.
- Prior reporting by The New York Times detailed these figures' activities months earlier, yet the segment omitted this fact and failed to disclose that Burkman and Wohl never successfully secured any pardon.
- While the report claimed prior pardons required admitting guilt, President Biden pardoned Anthony Fauci, Mark Milley, and Liz Cheney on his final day in office, none of whom expressed contrition.
- Despite lacking concrete proof connecting the administration to these schemes, the broadcast prompted partisan attacks as senior Democratic lawmakers vowed Monday to investigate the alleged pardon market.
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During his final hours in office, President Bill Clinton signed a flurry of pardons that led to a years-long scandal that found his own brother, Roger Clinton, had accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars to lobby for pardons, as did brothers of first lady Hillary Clinton and an attorney who worked on her Senate campaign that year.
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