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Trevor Milton, who founded hydrogen-powered truck company Nikola and was sentenced to four years in prison for fraud, has been pardoned by President Donald Trump.

"The pardon came two weeks after federal prosecutors urged District Court Judge Edgardo Ramos to order Milton to pay restitution of $680 million to Nikola shareholders, and another $15.2 million to Peter Hicks, a victim of his wire fraud," CNBC reported. But, "Because of the pardon, Ramos could not order restitution of any kind."

In a press release Thursday, Milton said that there are “striking similarities” between his case “and those brought against President Trump.”...

Defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth slammed the "liberal media" during his confirmation hearing Tuesday, blaming it for a "coordinated smear campaign" against him.

"What became very evident to us from the beginning, there was a coordinated smear campaign orchestrated in the media against us that was clear from moment one," Hegseth said.

He continued, "What we knew is that it wasn't about me. Most of it was about President Donald Trump, who's had to endure the very same thing for much longer amounts of time, and he endured it in incredibly strong ways. So we, in some ways, knew it was coming. ...

President-elect Donald Trump fired back at The Washington Post on Monday, calling claims that he's close to breaking a key part of his campaign pledge "just another example of Fake News."

The Post story, written by White House economics reporter Jeff Stein, claimed that instead of moving forward with Trump's campaign pledge to impose "universal tariffs" of up to 20 percent on all goods imported to the United States, Trump's team is now considering tariffs only for "certain sectors deemed critical to national or economic security."

Stein cited three anonymous sources in the story, and wrote that changing the parameters of universal tariffs "would jettison a key aspect of Trump’s campaign pledge, at least for now." Stein added that, "no decisions have been finalized and that planning remains in flux."...

Donald Trump has made it clear that he fully supports North Carolina lieutenant governor and GOP gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson — who has a "long history of wildly radical and unhinged moments," according to The New Republic's Greg Sargent.

During a June 30 speech at a White Lake, North Carolina church, the first Black lieutenant governor of the state said: "Some folks need killing. It's time for somebody to say it. It's not a matter of vengeance. It's not a matter of being mean or spiteful. It's a matter of necessity."

In an op-ed published by Rolling Stone Thursday, columnist Jay Michaelson — who describes himself as "a queer rabbi" — says he finds it "personally unsettling that" Robinson's remarks "have not drawn more condemnation, and that no one is asking Trump about them."...