Donald Trump's Clemencies: Unconventional Acts, Conventional Justifications

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Distribution of justifications across Pardon Attorney Recommendation_

	YES & PROBABLY	NO & PROBABLY NOT	Total
Retributive	8	238	246
Rehabilitative	30	184	214
Character Related	1	111	112
Utilitarian	1	10	11
Evidence of Smooth Re-entry	3	33	36
Mercy-Sympathy	0	15	15
Total	43	591	634

Distribution of justifications across Medium of Statement_

	White House Press Statement	Tweet from @White-house45	Tweet from @Trump-WarRoom	Tweet from @Real-Donald Trump	Scripted Speeches and Planned Remarks	Unscripted Interviews and Remarks	Total
RETRIBUTIVE	119	8	0	35	20	64	246
REHABILITATIVE	185	11	6	1	9	2	214
CHARACTER	81	0	0	5	8	18	112
UTILITARIAN	7	2	0	0	0	2	11
SMOOTH RE-ENTRY	36	0	0	0	0	0	36
MERCY	11	0	0	2	1	1	15
Total	439	21	6	43	38	87	634

Distribution of justifications across Type of Crime_ The total number of justifications increased from our original 634, since we counted the justification for all the crimes for which Trump granted clemency_ In some cases, the same justification was used to pardon two or even three different crimes_

	Obstruction	Financial	Drug	Crime against Person	Crime against Property	Other	Total
Retributive	116	69	38	27	17	11	278
Rehabilitative	9	68	103	8	20	13	221
Character Based	26	43	15	21	5	11	121
Utilitarian	3	2	0	3	2	1	11
Smooth Re-entry	0	4	29	0	2	2	37
Mercy/Sympathy	7	6	2	1	1	0	17
Total	161	192	187	60	47	38	685

Distribution of justifications between Pre and Post January 6th_

	Pre-January 6th	Post-January 6th
RETRIBUTIVE	202	44
REHABILITATIVE	91	123
CHARACTER	74	38
UTILITARIAN	7	4
SMOOTH RE-ENTRY	3	33
MERCY	12	3
Total	399	245

Distribution of justifications across involvement in the Mueller Investigation_

	Mueller	Non-Mueller	Total
Retributive	96	150	246
Rehabilitative	0	214	214
Character Related	14	98	112
Utilitarian	0	11	11
Evidence of Smooth Re-entry	0	36	36
Mercy-Sympathy	5	10	15
Total	115	519	634