US Politics

On the pardons for cash - he's pardoned a lot of folk (as every president does) - not all the pardons get the headlines.

List here - rich folk getting pardoned for various levels of dodgy dealing seem like the likely subjects. Not sure Flynn would be in this camp - Trump had a reason to pardon him without payment.

Paul Pogue sticks out a bit.

Pogue, the founder and executive of McKinney, Texas-based construction
company Pogue Construction, pleaded guilty in 2010 for under-reporting
his taxable income in 2004, 2005 and 2006, failing to pay more
than $400,000 taxes owed. In 2019, Pogue's son Ben Pogue and
daughter-in-law Ashleigh Pogue gave a total of $238,541 to Trump
Victory, a vehicle for Trump's reelection campaign. Former
Republican Senator Rick Santorum was a leading advocate for Pogue's
pardon; Paul Pogue had been a contributor to Santorum's presidential
election bid.