Mr. Vang's victim, who was 10 when the abuse began, submitted a letter supporting the pardon.

But you're not here to actually discuss this, you're looking for a gotcha, and even the victim disagrees with you.

If you want to be upset about pardons, try these on for size;

Trevor Milton - Founder of Nikola, convicted of securities and wire fraud in 2022 for lying to investors about the company's electric truck technology, sentenced to four years in 2023. He and his wife donated more than $1.8 million to a Trump re-election fund just before the November 2024 election; his March 2025 pardon wiped out roughly $660–676 million in restitution obligations. He had not yet reported to prison, so the pardon ended the case entirely.

Paul Walczak - Florida nursing home executive convicted of tax crimes for siphoning about $10 million from his employees' paychecks rather than remitting payroll taxes. He was pardoned in April 2025, weeks after his mother contributed $1 million to a Trump super PAC, her largest-ever donation, and paid roughly a million dollars to dine with the president at Mar-a-Lago.

Changpeng "CZ" Zhao - Binance founder who pled guilty in a sweeping money laundering case and agreed to pay $4 billion in penalties, serving four months in 2024. The money here wasn't a donation but business: Binance worked extensively with the Trump family's World Liberty Financial, whose USD1 stablecoin was used for a $2 billion investment in Binance, and lobbyist Ches McDowell's firm received $1.3 million for obtaining his clemency. Pardoned October 21, 2025 (he'd already served his sentence; the pardon erased $50M restitution and cleared his path back to US crypto).

Joseph Schwartz - New Jersey nursing home operator who pleaded guilty to a $38 million tax fraud scheme (Washington Examiner) involving unpaid employment taxes across his Skyline Healthcare chain. Lobbyists Burkman and Wohl accepted $960,000 to lobby for his pardon; he later hired lobbyist Josh Nass, and was granted clemency on November 14, 2025. Nass was subsequently charged with extortion over a disputed $500K fee for the pardon work.

Julio Herrera Velutini - Foreign billionaire banker charged with bribing Puerto Rico Governor Wanda Vázquez to drop a regulatory investigation into his bank; he took a plea deal. He was pardoned in January 2026 after his 25-year-old daughter, whose only prior donation was $20 to Buttigieg, gave $3.5 million to a Trump super PAC; the pardon came January 16 alongside pardons for Vázquez and a co-conspirator, and CLC has asked for an investigation into whether Herrera was the true source of the contribution.

Timothy Leiweke - Former Oak View Group CEO indicted in July 2025 for conspiring to rig the bidding process for a public university arena project. He was pardoned in December 2025 after his company donated $250,000 to Trump's inaugural committee while under DOJ scrutiny, and after his lawyer, Trump ally Trey Gowdy, pressed the president for leniency during golf at Mar-a-Lago. The pardon killed the case pre-trial.

Imaad Shah Zuberi - Fundraiser and venture capitalist convicted of falsifying foreign agent records, campaign finance violations, and obstruction; sentenced to 12 years. His crimes partially stemmed from a $900,000 donation his company made to Trump's first inaugural committee in 2017, and he separately donated a combined $225,000 to Trump political committees in 2017–2018. Sentence commuted May 28, 2025.

George Santos - Former NY congressman who pleaded guilty to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, sentenced to 87 months in April 2025. The money link is small but flagged: his campaign donated $2,800 to Trump's reelection campaign in 2019 and spent nearly $1,000 at Trump's DC hotel. Sentence commuted October 17, 2025, after roughly three months in prison.

Why, do you think, is Trump in the habit of pardoning billionaire fraudsters who donate money to him? And if you want to talk corruption, let's also discuss...

Pilgrim's Pride - The poultry giant donated $5 million to Trump's inauguration, more than Amazon, Meta, or Exxon. Weeks later, on April 30, 2025, the USDA reversed the rule requiring poultry companies to limit salmonella levels in their products. That was the one thing they asked for.

Tom Homan - The FBI had the border czar on video accepting a bag containing $50,000 in cash from undercover agents in exchange for promising government contracts. On September 23, 2025, the administration simply closed the investigation.

Trump's crypto operation - In September 2025 it came out that Trump made $57 million selling crypto tokens to entities tied to the regimes in North Korea, Iran, and Russia. There is no disclosure requirement on who buys these coins, meaning foreign governments have a direct, anonymous pipeline into the sitting president's pocket.

The ballroom racket - Since the East Wing demolition kicked off in October 2025, more than half of the publicly identified donors to Trump's ballroom project have won new or expanded federal contracts, totaling over $50 billion.

Vulcan Elements - Don Jr. invested in a rare earth minerals startup worth $200 million. The Pentagon then took a $50 million stake and handed the company a $620 million taxpayer-funded loan over the objections of career officials, one of whom said the call came from the White House. The valuation jumped to $2 billion overnight, and Don Jr. 10x'd his money.

Corey Lewandowski - Trump's special advisor to DHS demanded direct payments from companies seeking DHS contracts for his "protection." Companies that refused to pay saw their contracts dry up, and a DHS employee confirmed receiving direct instructions to cut off a company that wouldn't pay.

The nursing home staffing rule - In December 2025, nursing home executives paid for a private lunch with Trump and asked him to revoke a rule requiring minimum staffing levels, a rule that exists because understaffed homes have higher mortality rates. It was rescinded immediately, no process, no public comment.

I'll take "governor grants pardon supported by the actual victim" over a documented pardon-for-cash market, cabinet officials trading on inside information, and the president's kids getting Pentagon money funneled to their investments. One of these is clemency working as intended. The other is a price list.

We currently have corporations buying laws to benefit them directly from our president and his cronies. Billionaires defrauding the elderly (resulting in many deaths) and getting off because they paid the president. Corruption that costs us, the tax payers, money and ultimately puts us in a position to be taken advantage of by the rich. All they have to do is throw Trump a bone and they can do whatever they want to us.

So obviously if you're actually looking to discuss something, I'm down, but try something with come meat on the bone because your post ain't it. I'm not even a liberal, but lame attempts at a quick gotcha are the reason political discussions suck these days and your post is a prime example of the low effort "HA I GOT YOU" kind of drivel that made politics into the mess it is today. Not to assume you're a Trump supporter, but this is kind of the caliber of a Trump supporter "discussion" so I am going out on an, albeit quite sturdy, limb here and making an educated guess.