Trump pardoned Zachary Alam as a wrongly persecuted ‘political prisoner,’ but Alam just got seven years for burglary—proving Trump freed actual criminals, not martyrs. The so-called ‘law and order’ president weaponized his pardon power to protect insurrectionists regardless of their rap sheets. Trump’s blanket forgiveness wasn’t justice; it was recklessness dressed up as loyalty.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/10/pardoned-january-6-rioter-sentenced-virginia-burglary