Trump Action Archive

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• DHS purchases five aircraft at markup from Kristi Noem donor on her last day as secretary — On Kristi Noem's final day as secretary of homeland security, the Department of Homeland Security purchased five aircraft at a considerable markup from one of Noem's political donors. The most expensive aircraft—a Boeing 737 converted into a private jet featuring marble showers and a manta ray skin-covered table—cost the department $108 million. The timing and pricing of the purchase raise questions about whether the transaction was conducted at fair market value and whether Noem's personal political relationships influenced a major government procurement decision.

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• Trump pardons Binance founder Changpeng Zhao — Trump granted a pardon to Changpeng Zhao, Binance's ex-CEO and founder, who had pleaded guilty in U.S. federal court to violating the Bank Secrecy Act and failing to maintain an effective anti-money-laundering program. Zhao served a four-month jail term in 2024 before receiving the pardon in 2025. Zhao still owns 90 percent of Binance, which has been plagued by money-laundering violations and internal findings of $1.7 billion in crypto moving to Iranian entities linked to terrorism.
• Trump settles $10 billion IRS lawsuit with immunity provision — Trump used the Department of Justice to forge a settlement of his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS regarding a leak of his tax returns. The settlement grants Trump and his family immunity from IRS audits of prior tax returns and could save him approximately $100 million. A federal judge later found that because Trump controlled both sides of the case, there was no genuine adversity of parties to provide the court with jurisdiction, characterizing the arrangement as essentially a gift to Trump at taxpayer expense.
• Trump uses presidency to amass $2.2bn in personal revenue through crypto, Truth Social, and foreign deals — Donald Trump has generated approximately $2.2 billion in personal revenue during his second presidency through multiple ventures: $1.4 billion from cryptocurrency holdings (including $799 million from World Liberty Financial and $636 million from his $Trump memecoin), a $100,000-per-month Truth Social scheme offering wealthy buyers early access to presidential posts, a $10 billion IRS settlement providing tax immunity, and a $400 million plane gift from Qatar. Ethics experts and congressional Democrats have raised corruption concerns, noting that Trump has declined to place assets in a blind trust and has dismantled regulatory guardrails that previously constrained presidential conflicts of interest.
• Trump's World Liberty Financial receives $2 billion UAE investment in Binance deal — Trump's World Liberty Financial (WLF), co-founded by Trump and his sons with Steve Witkoff's family in fall 2024, received a central role in a $2 billion investment by Abu Dhabi's MGX fund (backed by the United Arab Emirates) into Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange. The deal involved MGX purchasing $2 billion of WLF's USD1 stablecoin for investment in Binance. This arrangement occurred despite Binance's 2023 guilty plea to money-laundering violations, a $4.3 billion DOJ fine, and internal findings that $1.7 billion in crypto moved through Binance to Iranian entities linked to terrorism.
• Truth Social launches $100,000-per-month early-access scheme for wealthy investors — Trump's Truth Social media business announced a new scheme offering wealthy buyers special early access to Trump's posts for a fee of $100,000 per month, dubbed Truth API. The product would provide institutional investors with high-speed access to non-public presidential communications before public release. Democratic senators Mark Warner, Elizabeth Warren, and Adam Schiff, along with ethics watchdog groups, have raised serious conflict-of-interest and corruption concerns, characterizing the arrangement as insider trading and a step toward normalizing public corruption.
• Trump accepts $400 million plane gift from Qatar — Trump circumvented the Constitution's prohibition on foreign emoluments by accepting a $400 million plane as a gift from Qatar. This arrangement, along with other wealthy foreign backing of Trump family hotel and golf deals abroad, has raised concerns among critics about violations of the Foreign Emoluments Clause.
• Businessman under UK money-laundering investigation invested $100 million in Trump crypto — The New York Times reported that a businessman once under investigation in the UK for money laundering became one of the biggest buyers of tokens from Trump's cryptocurrency company, spending $100 million through a newly formed firm. As much as three-quarters of the money ultimately went to a company controlled by Trump and his sons.

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• Trump pardons former Honduran president — Trump announced a full pardon for former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández, who was convicted of drug trafficking. This decision raises questions about the integrity of U.S. foreign policy and the rule of law, given Hernández's criminal history.
• Trump pardons former Honduras president Juan Orlando Hernández convicted of cocaine trafficking conspiracy — Trump announced a full pardon for Juan Orlando Hernández, former president of Honduras, who was found guilty by an American jury last year of conspiring to import 400 tons of cocaine into the United States and was sentenced to 45 years in federal prison. Trump announced the pardon on social media, writing "MAKE HONDURAS GREAT AGAIN!"
• Trump granted pardon to Juan Orlando Hernández, major drug trafficker — Trump announced a pardon for Juan Orlando Hernández, former president of Honduras, who was convicted by a US jury of conspiring to traffic 400 tons of cocaine into the United States. The DOJ estimated this represented 4.5 billion doses of cocaine and that Hernández was at the center of one of the largest and most violent drug-trafficking conspiracies in the world.
• Trump justified Hernández pardon by claiming Biden setup — When asked to explain the pardon of Juan Orlando Hernández, Trump stated "Many of the people of Honduras said it was a Biden setup. I looked at the facts and agreed with them." When pressed for evidence, Trump responded that arresting a president for drug trafficking in any country would be unjust.
• Trump pardoned Juan Orlando Hernández, former Honduran president and major narco-trafficker — Trump pardoned Juan Orlando Hernández, the former president of Honduras and one of the world's most notorious narco-traffickers. According to the text, Hernández trafficked hundreds of tons of cocaine into the United States, worked with El Chapo, and openly vowed to "shove cocaine up the noses of gringos until they die." Trump proceeded with the pardon despite these facts.
• Trump pledges pardon for former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández — Donald Trump announced his intention to pardon Juan Orlando Hernández, the former president of Honduras, who was convicted in July 2024 in Manhattan federal court and sentenced to 45 years in prison for cocaine importation and weapons offenses. Trump claimed Hernández was "set up" and that the Honduran people believed he was wrongly prosecuted. The pardon pledge contradicts Trump's stated "war on drugs" agenda, particularly given simultaneous military operations against Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro, whom Trump accuses of narco-trafficking despite weaker evidence of culpability than Hernández's proven conviction.
• Trump pardon of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández — President Trump quietly pardoned Juan Orlando Hernández, former President of Honduras, who is described as one of the most notorious drug traffickers in modern history and who once promised to "shove the drugs right up the noses of the gringos." The pardon occurred while Trump was publicly demanding military action against drug trafficking and criticizing others as "narco terrorists."
• Trump pardoned former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez, who was serving a 45-year sentence for drug trafficking and weapons conspiracy. — Trump officially pardoned Juan Orlando Hernandez, the former president of Honduras, who was incarcerated in federal prison serving a 45-year sentence for drug trafficking and conspiracy to traffic weapons into the United States. Hernandez had served less than 2 years of his sentence before being released. According to an immigration attorney, Hernandez was also accused of ordering the murder of a former ally by machete while in prison.
• Trump formally pardoned Juan Orlando Hernández — Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández's lawyer said his client was released from prison after Trump formally pardoned him on Monday evening. Axios reported that Trump's pardon came hours after ally Roger Stone, who had called for the pardon in multiple posts, reached out to the president to lobby for the move.
• Trump pardons entertainment executive indicted by DOJ for bid-rigging conspiracy — Donald Trump issued a full and unconditional pardon on Tuesday for Tim Leiweke, co-founder of Oak View Group, who had been indicted by the Trump administration's own Justice Department in July 2025 on charges of orchestrating a conspiracy to rig the bidding process for an arena at a public university in Austin, Texas. Leiweke had pleaded not guilty and was scheduled to stand trial in 2026. The pardon was posted to the DOJ website on Wednesday with no explanation provided.
• Trump pardons ex-Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández from 45-year drug trafficking sentence — Donald Trump pardoned former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández on December 5, 2025, commuting a 45-year federal sentence for drug trafficking and weapons charges. Hernández had been convicted in March 2024 after a three-week trial in which prosecutors proved he accepted $1 million from cartel kingpin Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán and allowed Honduras to serve as a cocaine trafficking corridor. The pardon occurred while Trump was simultaneously waging a "war on drugs" with military operations in the Pacific and Caribbean, and amid Trump's interference in Honduras's presidential election endorsing Hernández's political ally.

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• Trump announces pardon for former Honduras president Juan Orlando Hernández — Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that he will grant a full pardon to Juan Orlando Hernández, the former president of Honduras currently serving a 45-year sentence for drug trafficking and weapons charges. Hernández was convicted in March 2024 of accepting millions in bribes to protect cocaine shipments destined for the US. Trump characterized the conviction as "very harsh and unfair," despite prosecutors describing Hernández as having "paved a cocaine superhighway to the United States." The pardon announcement coincided with Trump's endorsement of Tito Asfura in Honduras's upcoming presidential election.
• Trump announced a pardon for former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández — Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that he will grant a full pardon to Juan Orlando Hernández, the former president of Honduras currently serving a 45-year sentence for drug trafficking and weapons charges. Hernández was convicted in March 2024 of accepting millions in bribes to protect cocaine shipments destined for the US. Trump characterized the conviction as "very harsh and unfair," despite Hernández's role in enabling drug traffickers to use Honduras's military and police. The pardon announcement coincided with Trump's endorsement of Tito Asfura in Honduras's upcoming presidential election.
• Trump announced pardon for convicted drug trafficker Juan Orlando Hernández — President Trump announced he would pardon former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, who was sentenced in the United States to 45 years in prison for trafficking hundreds of tons of cocaine into the country while collaborating with the Sinaloa Cartel. Trump's decision to shield a convicted narco-trafficker contradicts his administration's stated commitment to waging a war on drugs.
• — On Truth Social, Trump announced he would grant a pardon to former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, a convicted drug trafficker sentenced to 45 years in prison in 2024 for conspiring to import cocaine to the US. Trump claimed Hernández was "treated very harshly and unfairly," though then-Attorney General Merrick Garland had described the conspiracy as "one of the largest and most violent drug-trafficking conspiracies in the world."

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• Neuralink submitted false SDB certifications across 11 federal filings since 2017 — Neuralink has repeatedly claimed small disadvantaged business status in all 11 of its filings on SAM.gov, the federal government's contracting database, since 2017. Many filings were signed by Jared Birchall, Musk's chief of staff and Neuralink's CEO, who attested under penalty of criminal prosecution and civil liability under the False Claims Act that the company's representations were accurate. The SDB designation remains visible on Neuralink's main SAM.gov profile page. In three separate filings (September 2020, May 2021, August 2021), Neuralink responded affirmatively to questions about seeking federal financial assistance, grants, or loans while maintaining the false SDB certification.
• Musk directed federal DEI program cuts while Neuralink claimed diversity program benefits — While leading the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), Elon Musk directed the termination of federal diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives and purged federal DEI grants and contracts for minority-owned businesses, including legitimate small disadvantaged businesses. Simultaneously, Neuralink—Musk's company—falsely claimed SDB status to access the same federal diversity programs Musk was publicly attacking and dismantling. Musk has stated that "DEI is just another word for racism" and described it as "actually illegal," while his company exploited the SDB designation for potential federal contracting advantages.