{"id":33946,"date":"2025-02-21T04:08:58","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T04:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/21\/trump-appoints-alice-marie-johnson-pardon-czar-during-black-history-month-event-at-white-house-2\/"},"modified":"2025-02-21T04:08:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T04:08:58","slug":"trump-appoints-alice-marie-johnson-pardon-czar-during-black-history-month-event-at-white-house-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/21\/trump-appoints-alice-marie-johnson-pardon-czar-during-black-history-month-event-at-white-house-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump appoints Alice Marie Johnson ‘pardon czar’ during Black History Month event at White House"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump<\/a> on Thursday appointed Alice Marie Johnson, a woman he pardoned during his first term, as “pardon czar.”<\/p>\n

The announcement came during a Black History Month event at the White House<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The “pardon czar” will be responsible for making recommendations about who should be granted clemency.<\/p>\n

TRUMP SAYS CRIMINAL TRIAL IS HAVING A ‘REVERSE EFFECT,’ AS HE CAMPAIGNS AT NEW YORK BODEGA, VOWS TO SAVE CITY<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The New York Times first reported Trump was thinking about naming Johnson “pardon czar.”<\/p>\n

Johnson was convicted of nonviolent drug trafficking in Memphis, Tennessee<\/a>, and after serving 21 years, her life sentence was commuted by Trump.<\/p>\n

Reality television star Kim Kardashian West met with Trump at the White House a week prior to her release to discuss the great-grandmother’s case.<\/p>\n

WHO IS ALICE MARIE JOHNSON, THE GREAT-GRANDMOTHER TRUMP GRANTED CLEMENCY TO?<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

She was arrested in 1993 and convicted of drug conspiracy and money laundering in 1996.<\/p>\n

A series of unfortunate events, including the death of her son, financial troubles and a divorce, led her to involvement with cocaine dealers.<\/p>\n

“Back in the 1990s, I was a single mother about to lose my house,” Johnson wrote in a Fox News Digital opinion article. “In a desperate moment, I made a life-altering bad decision to become a low-level player in a drug operation. When law enforcement authorities<\/u><\/a> broke up the drug operation, I was prosecuted and sentenced to life in prison.”<\/p>\n

While Johnson claims she never “touched, saw or sold a single drug,” she admitted to assisting in communications.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While in prison, she worked in the prison hospice, volunteered in the prison church, became an ordained minister, and started writing and directing plays.<\/p>\n

After being pardoned, she remained under federal supervision for five years.<\/p>\n

KIM KARDASHIAN WEST ADVOCATES FOR ALICE JOHNSON, OTHERS WHO ARE JAILED<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

She became a champion for overburdened case officers and has fought against unnecessary supervision post-incarceration.<\/p>\n

Her work on criminal justice<\/a> reform led her to launch “Taking Action For Good,” which advocated for clemency and pardons for over 100 people.<\/p>\n

She also published a book and partnered with the philanthropic organization, Stand Together.<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital’s Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Emma Colton and Alice Marie Johnson contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump on Thursday appointed Alice Marie Johnson, a woman he pardoned during his first term, as “pardon czar.” The announcement came during a Black History Month event at the White House. The “pardon czar” will be responsible for making recommendations about who should be granted clemency. TRUMP SAYS CRIMINAL TRIAL IS HAVING A … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}