The Big Take
Lawyers Are Quoting $1 Million in Fees to Get Pardons to Trump
One pardon recipient recalls the president telling him, ‘You’re cleaner than a baby’s bottom.’
Trevor Milton was at home in mid-March when his phone lit up. The caller ID indicated the “Executive Office of the President of the United States” was on the line.
“I thought it was fake,” said Milton, the founder of the electric-truck maker Nikola Corp., who was convicted of fraud in 2022 after the now bankrupt company made an infamous video of a prototype vehicle seeming to move on its own power, when in fact it was just rolling down a hill. “This has to be one of those people that hate me.”