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It seems pretty clear that the only people he was both interested in pardoning and didn't know personally belong to a particular ethnic group that those two don't.

Hu? Are you saying Trump had a bias in pardoning black (rappers)?

One and the same.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Hebrew_Israelites

> serious things happening in the shadows that prevent him from pardoning them

It's money, or the fact that they're not explicitly in his fanbase

> so curious why he doesn’t pardon assange and or snowden

Because Assange and Snowden didn't serve him out of political fealty or have sponsors forking over boatloads of money to Trump-allied political interests to secure the pardon.

Some senate republicans are very much in the camp that they're traitors.

Trump will be having a trial in the senate since he has been impeached. So he likely doesn't want to anger anyone.

(Former) Attorney General Barr talked Trump out of it:

https://apnews.com/article/49fce0a36f134da56786608aa5dfa4bc

And I thought I couldn't hate Barr more.