WASHINGTON — As soon as Donald Trump took office for his second term, he began using his clemency power at a steady clip. It started with the pardons of the roughly 1,500 criminal defendants charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, and continued each month , with more pardons or commutations. At the end of May, he had issued 73 clemency actions , not including all the Jan. 6 defendants. Trump once called the power to pardon “a beautiful thing.” “You got to get it right,” he told

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