Kaitlan Collins: Why Has Trump Pardoned Someone Who Was Indicted by His Own DoJ?

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COLLINS: "President Trump has pardoned over 1,500 people this year, but I have new reporting tonight on one in particular that has caught our attention. Now, granting clemency to a former top entertainment executive probably wouldn’t attract much scrutiny usually, especially given the president has pardoned January 6th rioters, a convicted drug trafficker, his own former chief of staff, the ex-CEO of a cryptocurrency exchange — you get the point. But this one stands out because Trump has pardoned now a former top entertainment executive who was indicted by Trump’s own Justice Department less than five months ago. Now, this full and unconditional pardon for the Oak View Group co-founder Tim Leiweke was posted online tonight by the Justice Department. It’s dated December 2nd, it bears the president’s signature, as you can see here, but Leiweke was just indicted five months ago by Trump’s own Antitrust Division over accusations that he orchestrated a conspiracy to rig the bidding process for a public university arena in Austin. A source tells me tonight that the former Republican Congressman Trey Gowdy actually lobbied the Justice Department for this to happen. But here’s the other thing that stands out here, beyond the fact that Trump is now pardoning someone his own Justice Department, not the Biden Justice Department, not the Obama Justice Department, his own Justice Department actually indicted. He's also just pardoned someone who has a history of blasting him online.”