All of his pardons so far have been political, that is to loyalists or those who were willing to pay him ~~a bribe~~ campaign contributions. If he were to make pardons of mercy, the public would suspect they were political merely based on the precedent he's already set.

However, I can't even imagine Trump willing to make mercy pardons at all. Trump really is that stuck in a transactional mindset, and cannot do a positive thing even as a publicity stunt. Every step he takes has to enrich him.

Will be a list full of overt distractions all to hide the 3-5 pardons he REALLY doesn't want you to focus on.

And each pardon only cost $250,000.

"Letting Criminals Go Free" seems to track now that "Law and Order" is on the wane.

No doubt they'll be the people least deserving

Nothing says "250th anniversary of the nation's founding" quite like the Felon-in-Chief pardoning even more of his criminal cronies and sycophants.

If the president weighs 250 pounds on the 250th anniversary, that would be awesome.

So.. 250 people charged in connection with epstein files?

The article isn't loading for me, but if the headline is accurate, there is no way to logically cast this in a positive light because you're arbitrarily playing with people's lives to match a number that happens to be a round number in base 10.

I think we all know that there aren't going to be exactly 250 people who deserve pardons. So either they are pardoning too many people and letting criminals go free without completing their sentences, or there are more than 250 people who deserve pardons. Imagine being the 251st person. "Sorry, but Trump wanted exactly 250, so you don't get a pardon."

Lol you could do 250 of thousands of different things that would all be objectively better than pardoning 250 convicted criminals.

You just know Ghislaine Maxwell is on that list. Someone has to get her body double out of Club Fed.

Somebody shoot him another email.

Has anyone noticed that this Trump guy is kind of a cunt?

250k per pardon

If you saw this in something like the Hunger Games you wouldn't bat an eye.

Release Barabbas! Release Barabbas! Seriously, is it any more clear that any pretense of good governance has been abandoned and it is all just turning into bread and circuses? I’d like to observe that while roughly 9% of presidents have been assassinated, about 40% of Roman emperors were, so this whole “bread and circuses” might not work as well as they think.

I wish hell was real.

I feel like this is what happens if the penguin becomes president.

Why stop there? Try 250 war crimes while you're at it oh look, a convenient war.

More criminals on the roads.

With any other president, I van see the pardon as a sign of compassion. With him, it is a pay-for-pardon scheme for criminals that managed to align with the Conman in Command.