“It’s heartbreaking,” says one attorney who left the office. “It’s not that they’re doing it differently. It’s that it’s corrupt.” Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photos: Getty Images Staffers at the Office of the Pardon Attorney knew it was going to be a rough four years on day one of the new administration, when President Trump , just hours after being sworn in, granted a blanket pardon to nearly 1,600 supporters involved in the January 6 attack on the Capitol. He was just getting started.