{"id":203379,"date":"2026-01-07T15:49:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T15:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=203379"},"modified":"2026-01-07T15:49:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T15:49:04","slug":"trump-pardons-entertainment-ceo-his-own-justice-department-charged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=203379","title":{"rendered":"Trump Pardons Entertainment CEO His Own Justice Department Charged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump has given a full and unconditional pardon to entertainment executive Tim Leiweke\u2014whom his own Justice Department indicted on charges of \u201corchestrating a conspiracy to rig the bidding process for an arena at a public university\u201d in Austin.The pardon is dated Tuesday.Leiweke was charged in July of this year&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/post\/203959\/donald-trump-pardons-ceo-own-justice-department\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump has given a full and unconditional pardon to entertainment executive Tim Leiweke\u2014whom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":203380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203379-trump-pardons-entertainment-ceo-his-own-justice-department-charged.jpeg",1200,800,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203379-trump-pardons-entertainment-ceo-his-own-justice-department-charged-150x150.jpeg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203379-trump-pardons-entertainment-ceo-his-own-justice-department-charged-300x200.jpeg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203379-trump-pardons-entertainment-ceo-his-own-justice-department-charged-768x512.jpeg",640,427,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203379-trump-pardons-entertainment-ceo-his-own-justice-department-charged-1024x683.jpeg",640,427,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203379-trump-pardons-entertainment-ceo-his-own-justice-department-charged.jpeg",1200,800,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203379-trump-pardons-entertainment-ceo-his-own-justice-department-charged.jpeg",1200,800,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203379-trump-pardons-entertainment-ceo-his-own-justice-department-charged-1024x683.jpeg",1024,683,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203379-trump-pardons-entertainment-ceo-his-own-justice-department-charged-825x575.jpeg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203379-trump-pardons-entertainment-ceo-his-own-justice-department-charged-590x410.jpeg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=42\" rel=\"category\">Entertainment<\/a>","tag_info":"Entertainment","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=203379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/203380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}