The Cynical Truth About Trump's Latest Million Dollar Grift: Liz Oyer

Source: The Daily Beast

The Cynical Truth About Trump’s Latest Million Dollar Grift: Attorney

The Daily Beast Podcast, William Vaillancourt
Sat, September 27, 2025 at 2:06 PM EDT
4 min read

Donald Trump’s system for handing out pardons “is the definition of corruption,” according to the U.S. Pardon Attorney he fired in March.

Liz Oyer, who served in that role from April 2022 until she refused to recommend the restoration of Trump-supporting actor Mel Gibson’s gun rights, told The Daily Beast Podcast that “it’s a very good time to be a white-collar criminal because of this possibility of getting a pardon” from the president.

“There has cropped up a whole pardon economy that extends beyond the president himself to people in his orbit with access to the president” the former public defender told host Joanna Coles, the Chief Creative and Content Officer for the Daily Beast.

“It’s been reported that pardon seekers are paying in many cases $1 million or more for high-priced lawyers and lobbyists with connections to Donald Trump to try to get their applications to the front of the line,” she continued. “This is creating really sort of a feeding frenzy around pardons. The pardon process has become a complete financial, transactional process, not something that is rooted in principles of law or justice.”

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