“As president, Donald Trump used his constitutional clemency powers to free or forgive many people who could be useful to his future political efforts,” the Washington Post reports.
“Now, a Washington Post review of Trump’s 238 clemency orders finds that dozens of recipients have gone on to plug his 2024 candidacy through social media and national interviews, contribute money to his campaign or disseminate his false claims of fraud in the 2020 election.”
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Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.
Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.
Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.
Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.
Goddard is the owner of Goddard Media LLC.