A Nevada newspaper owned by Donald Trump Mega Donor has saved the US president’s decision to forgive Republican councillors who relent on Republican councillors.
The Las Vegas Review Journal, owned by billionaire Miriam Adelson, described the decision as the “declining of the president’s right to pardon,” a rigorous editorial editor released after Trump gave generosity to former Las Vegas MP and Nevada Sen. Michele Fiore.
Fiore was convicted of fraud last year. Federal prosecutors said in court that he was fatally shot on a mission in 2014 but instead raised more than $70,000 for a statue of a Las Vegas police officer who spent on cosmetic surgery, rent and a daughter’s wedding.
Valued at $35 billion, Adelson spent $100 million on Trump’s reelection in 2024, but appears to have decided not to intervene when Nevada’s biggest newspaper, the Review Journal, attacked him on Friday.
The newspaper editor criticized Trump’s pardon of Fiore.
“A pardon that is simple and does not include explanation is a humiliation against a federal ju umpire who sends exactly the wrong message to civil servants who hear her case and try to enrich themselves through their secrets,” the Review Journal writes.
“In addition, pardons are usually reserved for those who have been wrongly convicted or for other victims of miscarriages of justice. In this case, there is no evidence that neither occurred. Instead, it is difficult to argue that political considerations are not the main motivation to grant Ms. Fiore to remedy.”
Trump quietly forgives his solid supporter Fiore on Wednesday, but the moves have only been revealed after Fiore wrote about generosity in a Facebook post. The White House confirmed the pardon but did not further elaborate it.
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In January, Trump was criticized after issuing “complete, complete and unconditional” presidential pardons to about 1,500 people involved in the January 6 attack on Congress, including some who were convicted of violence.
