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Tuesday in Wasilla, Alaska, he brought two freshly forgiven felons onstage at a rally, signed their pardons at the podium, and held one up like a trophy. Zachary Czubak and Patrick Fleming co-owned a diesel shop called Arm Rippin Toys. Their business was tuning and deleting emissions equipment.

Prosecutors said the shop tampered with emissions systems on at least 37 vehicles and collected about $100,000 doing it. Both men pleaded guilty to conspiring to violate the Clean Air Act. trump told the crowd they faced ten years in jail "because they fixed an engine."

Czubak got probation and a fine. Fleming got a $66,000 fine, with no prison time listed. Then he handed them the mic, and one of them told the crowd to reelect the Republicans who lobbied for the pardons. That's the whole transaction, out loud, in daylight, with a pen.