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Figure 1

Trump's Clemency Justifications.
Trump's Clemency Justifications.

Figure 2

Composition of Retributive Justifications.
Composition of Retributive Justifications.

Figure 3

Composition of Rehabilitative Justifications, split between acceptance of responsibility and redeeming behavior.
Composition of Rehabilitative Justifications, split between acceptance of responsibility and redeeming behavior.

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
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