President Trump has issued a new pardon.
President Trump has announced he has issued a pardon to former Republican Representative Stephen Buyer of Indiana.
Buyer was previously convicted of insider trading and sentenced to nearly two months in prison.
ABC News provided further details on President Trump’s latest pardon:
President Donald Trump announced he has issued a pardon to former Republican Rep. Stephen Buyer of Indiana, who was convicted of insider trading after leaving office.
The Securities and Exchange Commission charged Buyer with insider trading in 2021, accusing him of trading stocks using private information about the merger of T-Mobile and Sprint from clients of his consulting firm that he established after he left Congress in 2011.
Buyer was sentenced to 22 months in prison in September 2023, six months after a Manhattan federal jury convicted him. He was released from prison last year after serving out his sentence.
In the proclamation declaring the pardon, which is dated June 4, Trump said Buyer’s time in Congress and as a judge advocate general (JAG) in the U.S. Army was “distinguished and highly productive,” and does not mention any wrongdoings.
The proclamation said several Republican leaders, including Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, backed the pardon.
Trump has previously decried the practice of insider trading on prediction markets amid ongoing global conflicts like the Iran war and has stated he’s “not happy with any of that stuff.”
Here’s a photo of Buyer before being sentenced:
President Trump announced he has issued a pardon to former Republican Rep. Stephen Buyer of Indiana, who was convicted of insider trading after leaving office.
Read more: https://t.co/6SyyIO5ZSp pic.twitter.com/BzrC7RERqq
— ABC News (@ABC) June 6, 2026
The White House has released a list of names of people who endorsed the pardon:
The following individuals have given their complete and total endorsement for the pardon of Stephen E. Buyer:
- Sen. Roger Wicker
- Sen. Lindsey Graham
- Rep. Jack Bergman
- Rep. Ken Calvert
- Rep. Tom Cole
- Rep. Pete Sessions
- Rep. Marlin Stutzman
- Hon. Bob Barr
- Hon. Gresham Barrett
- Hon. Joe Barton
- Hon. John Boehner
- Hon. Peter Blute
- Hon. Henry Edward Brown, Jr.
- Hon. Richard Burr
- Hon. Dan Burton
- Hon. Saxby Chambliss
- Hon. Kenneth Michael Conaway
- Hon. Thomas Dale DeLay
- Hon. Randy Forbes
- Hon. Jeff Fortenberry
- Hon. Rodney Frelinghuysen
- Hon. Louie Gohmert
- Hon. Gil Gutknecht
- Hon. Melissa Ann Hart
- Hon. Doc Hastings
- Hon. JD Hayworth, Jr.
- Hon. Curtis T. Hill, Jr.
- Hon. Duncan L. Hunter
- Hon. Tim Hutchinson
- Hon. Jack H. Kingston
- Hon. John D. Kline
- Hon. Bob Livingston
- Hon. Thaddeus McCotter
- Hon. Howard “Buck” McKeon
- Hon. Luke Messer
- Hon. John L. Mica
- Hon. Tim Murphy
- Hon. Sue Myrick
- Hon. R. James Nicholson
- Hon. Anne Northup
- Hon. Ed Pease
- Hon. George Radanovich
- Hon. Phil Roe
- Hon. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
- Hon. Jim Ryun
- Hon. Rick Santorum
- Hon. Bill Shuster
- Hon. Lamar S. Smith
- Hon. Cliff Stearns
- Hon. John E. Sweeney
- Hon. William “Todd” Tiahrt
- Hon. Pat Tiberi
- Hon. Ed Whitfield
So far in Trump’s second term he has granted clemency to over 1,800 individuals with the majority of them being Trump supporters who were jailed for being part of the January 6th protests.
What are your thoughts on Trump’s latest pardon?
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