{"id":2439959,"date":"2026-06-01T10:34:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T10:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2439959"},"modified":"2026-06-01T10:34:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T10:34:01","slug":"john-oliver-has-a-grim-reality-check-about-trumps-pardon-spree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/john-oliver-has-a-grim-reality-check-about-trumps-pardon-spree\/","title":{"rendered":"John Oliver Has A Grim Reality Check About Trump&#8217;s Pardon Spree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>John Oliver on Sunday exposed what he called the \u201cflagrant\u201d hypocrisy at the heart of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/news\/topic\/donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s use of the presidential pardon power.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The \u201cLast Week Tonight\u201d host warned that Trump\u2019s dubious use of the power is \u201cnot likely to stop anytime soon\u201d and he also admitted there is \u201cnot much that we can do\u201d about it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cTrump loves to rail about how tough he is when it comes to law and order,\u201d Oliver noted. \u201cBut that toughness is clearly deeply selective because he\u2019ll happily put violent people and fraudsters right back on the streets to victimize people again just because they support him.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Trump\u2019s use of pardons has \u201cescalated sharply,\u201d Oliver noted, with nearly 2,000 already issued during his second term compared with 238 during his first, including for his supporters involved in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cI know it is not news that America has a two-tiered justice system, but this is taking it to an absurd extreme,\u201d Oliver said. \u201cThe way we\u2019re going right now, we may well end up at a point where we don\u2019t so much have a system of laws as much as we just have \u2018a guy.\u2019 And if you\u2019re on that guy\u2019s team, you basically get to commit crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cBut the thing is, that\u2019s just not the social contract any of us signed up for. All of this is a very, very slippery slope,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Oliver on Sunday exposed what he called the \u201cflagrant\u201d hypocrisy at the heart of Donald Trump\u2019s use of the presidential pardon power. 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