EXPLOSIVE: Donald Trump’s Ties With Epstein Have Become CLEAR.

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Trump’s Pardons Have Erased Around a Billion Dollars Owed to Victims

Three different organisations have now tried to put a number on what Donald Trump’s clemency has cost the people his pardon recipients defrauded, and they do not agree. The gap is worth understanding, because it is where most of the argument about this lives.

House Judiciary Democrats, in an August staff report titled Pardons, Inc., put it at nearly $1.7 billion in restitution, fines and forfeitures forgiven. That was up from their own earlier estimate of $1.3 billion.

Liz Oyer, the former United States pardon attorney, has put it above $1.5 billion.

CBS News published an investigation this week that counted differently and arrived lower. Reviewing federal court judgments from January 2025 to October 2026, it found roughly $1.08 billion in fines and restitution affected overall, of which $119.4 million was court-ordered restitution owed directly to victims and now eliminated. A further $170.9 million is jointly owed with…