President Trump Pardons Former GOP Congressman

President Trump has issued a new pardon.

President Trump has announced he has issued a pardon to former Republican Representative Stephen Buyer of Indiana.

Buyer was previously convicted of insider trading and sentenced to nearly two months in prison.

ABC News provided further details on President Trump’s latest pardon:

President Donald Trump announced he has issued a pardon to former Republican Rep. Stephen Buyer of Indiana, who was convicted of insider trading after leaving office.

The Securities and Exchange Commission charged Buyer with insider trading in 2021, accusing him of trading stocks using private information about the merger of T-Mobile and Sprint from clients of his consulting firm that he established after he left Congress in 2011.

Buyer was sentenced to 22 months in prison in September 2023, six months after a Manhattan federal jury convicted him. He was released from prison last year after serving out his sentence.

In the proclamation declaring the pardon, which is dated June 4, Trump said Buyer’s time in Congress and as a judge advocate general (JAG) in the U.S. Army was “distinguished and highly productive,” and does not mention any wrongdoings.

The proclamation said several Republican leaders, including Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, backed the pardon.

Trump has previously decried the practice of insider trading on prediction markets amid ongoing global conflicts like the Iran war and has stated he’s “not happy with any of that stuff.”

Here’s a photo of Buyer before being sentenced:

President Trump announced he has issued a pardon to former Republican Rep. Stephen Buyer of Indiana, who was convicted of insider trading after leaving office.

Read more: https://t.co/6SyyIO5ZSp pic.twitter.com/BzrC7RERqq

— ABC News (@ABC) June 6, 2026

The White House has released a list of names of people who endorsed the pardon:

The following individuals have given their complete and total endorsement for the pardon of Stephen E. Buyer:

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Sen. Roger Wicker

Sen. Lindsey Graham

Rep. Jack Bergman

Rep. Ken Calvert

Rep. Tom Cole

Rep. Pete Sessions

Rep. Marlin Stutzman

Hon. Bob Barr

Hon. Gresham Barrett

Hon. Joe Barton

Hon. John Boehner

Hon. Peter Blute

Hon. Henry Edward Brown, Jr.

Hon. Richard Burr

Hon. Dan Burton

Hon. Saxby Chambliss

Hon. Kenneth Michael Conaway

Hon. Thomas Dale DeLay

Hon. Randy Forbes

Hon. Jeff Fortenberry

Hon. Rodney Frelinghuysen

Hon. Louie Gohmert

Hon. Gil Gutknecht

Hon. Melissa Ann Hart

Hon. Doc Hastings

Hon. JD Hayworth, Jr.

Hon. Curtis T. Hill, Jr.

Hon. Duncan L. Hunter

Hon. Tim Hutchinson

Hon. Jack H. Kingston

Hon. John D. Kline

Hon. Bob Livingston

Hon. Thaddeus McCotter

Hon. Howard “Buck” McKeon

Hon. Luke Messer

Hon. John L. Mica

Hon. Tim Murphy

Hon. Sue Myrick

Hon. R. James Nicholson

Hon. Anne Northup

Hon. Ed Pease

Hon. George Radanovich

Hon. Phil Roe

Hon. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

Hon. Jim Ryun

Hon. Rick Santorum

Hon. Bill Shuster

Hon. Lamar S. Smith

Hon. Cliff Stearns

Hon. John E. Sweeney

Hon. William “Todd” Tiahrt

Hon. Pat Tiberi

Hon. Ed Whitfield

So far in Trump’s second term he has granted clemency to over 1,800 individuals with the majority of them being Trump supporters who were jailed for being part of the January 6th protests.

What are your thoughts on Trump’s latest pardon?