NYT

Trump is employing the vast power of his office to redefine criminality — using pardons to inoculate criminals he happens to like, downplaying corruption and fraud as crimes and seeking to stigmatize political opponents by labeling them criminals.

In the past few days, Trump has offered pardons or clemency to more than two dozen people embraced by his obstreperous right-wing base, or favored by people in his orbit. Most are political allies, some are former officeholders accused of abusing power for personal gain, and almost all were convicted of white-collar crimes like fraud, tax evasion and campaign finance violations — not far removed from accusations Trump himself has faced.

“No MAGA left behind,” crowed Ed Martin, the pardon attorney at the Justice Department who suggested that the department should investigate Mr. Trump’s adversaries to shame them if there was insufficient evidence to charge them.