Earlier than Trump’s presidency resulted in January 2021, he granted clemency to 143 people – pardoning 73, together with Ripple board member Ken Kurson, and commuting the sentences of 70 others. He didn’t do business in clemency to Ulbricht, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange or Edward Snowden, who exempted information about a U.S. surveillance program to American journalist Glenn Greenwald.