Trump said he also is considering pardons for men convicted in the kidnapping plot against Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan.

But the pardons announced Wednesday are part of a pattern of clemency grants that began in Trump's first term and has continued in the current one in which bold-face names, prominent supporters and defendants whose causes are championed by friends time and again have an edge on ordinary citizens who lack connections to the White House.

Former GOP Rep. Michael Grimm thanked President Donald Trump last night after the president pardoned the onetime lawmaker. “I am grateful beyond words to President Trump for restoring my good name and giving me my life back,” Grimm said in a statement that was given to the Staten Island Advance/SILIve.com.

Rep. Jamie Raskin — the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee — is asking for more information on a spate of pardons given out by President Trump.

A blitz of pardons and commutations included those who have expressed political support or echoed the president in claiming they had been unfairly targeted.

President Trump’s actions mixed his willingness to pardon prominent Republicans and other supporters, donors and friends with the influence.

Guess its Presidential Pardon week, in America. On Wednesday, March 28, NBA YoungBoy was officially granted a presidential pardon by former President Donald Trump, joining a group of eight other individuals who also received clemency. Among them were real estate personalities Todd and Julie Chrisley and former U.S. Representative Michael Grimm.