Trump Pardons YoungBoy

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President Trump pardons rapper YoungBoy Never Broke Again, who was sentenced last year to 23 months in prison for possession of firearms as a felon.

YoungBoy Never Broke Again had also been given 60 months of probation and was released from federal custody in March. Since then, he has been under home confinement. The rapper recently announced a headlining US tour, which is set to kick off in September.

“I want to thank President Trump for granting me a pardon and giving me the opportunity to keep building—as a man, as a father, and as an artist,” said YoungBoy Never Broke Again, who was born Kentrell DeSean Gaulden, and is also known as NBA YoungBoy. “This moment means a lot. It opens the door to a future I’ve worked hard for and I am fully prepared to step into this.”

The rapper’s tour agent, Andrew Lieber, said in a statement to The New York Times: “He’s a fully free man now, with no travel restrictions. The world is at his fingertips.”

Trump also pardoned a slew of high-profile Republicans and other supporters, donors, and friends, with the influence of Alice Marie Johnson, whom the president pardoned back in 2020. Trump has recently dubbed Johnson his “pardon czar.”

Among those pardoned in the latest round were Todd and Julie Chrisley of the reality show “Chrisley Knows Best,” who were convicted of conspiring to defraud banks in the Atlanta area. He also pardoned James Callahan, a New York union leader who pleaded guilty for failing to report $315,000 in gifts from an advertising firm.

Further, he pardoned former Connecticut governor John Rowland, a Republican who served from 1995 to 2004. Rowland was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison for charges related to concealing his involvement in two federal election campaigns. The president also pardoned Michael Grimm, a New York Republican who resigned from Congress after being convicted of tax fraud. Army Lt. Mark Bradshaw, convicted in 2022 of reporting to work without undergoing a COVID-19 test, was also pardoned.

Trump also commuted the sentence of Larry Hoover, a former Chicago gang leader serving a life sentence at Colorado’s supermax prison. Hoover was first imprisoned in connection with a 1973 murder, and was convicted of running a criminal enterprise in 1998.

In 2021, Trump pardoned Lil Wayne and commuted Kodak Black’s federal prison sentence before he left office. To celebrate his pardon, Lil Wayne released the song “Ain’t Got Time.”