President Trump has granted pardons to allies and supporters. Who is asking for amnesty now?

President Donald Trump has issued dozens of presidential pardon grants in the past few weeks alone, granting pardons and commutations to key businessmen, political allies and other allies.

Some hope he’s just getting started.

President Trump began aggressively using his presidential clemency powers on the first day of his second term, when he pardoned approximately 1,500 people charged in connection with the January 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol. A presidential pardon expunges a federal crime conviction, and a commutation shortens or cancels a prison sentence and, in some cases, reduces associated fines.

In the months that followed, a number of high-profile recipients of the pardons included former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, Hunter Biden’s former business partner Devon Archer, Nikola founder Trevor Milton, reality TV stars Julie Chrisley and Todd Chrisley, disgraced former U.S. Rep. George Santos, and Binance founder Chao Changpeng.

On Monday, President Trump granted largely symbolic pardons to more than 60 people involved in efforts to overturn his loss to Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election, U.S. pardon attorney Ed Martin said on social media. Those eligible for the pardon have not faced federal charges related to the 2020 election. The president’s pardon power does not extend to state-level prosecutors.

The group also includes Trump’s former personal lawyer and former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, as well as Trump’s former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows.

Some people pardoned by President Trump have since been charged with new crimes, including several people involved in the January 6th Capitol riot.

The Department of Justice’s Office of the Pardon Attorney has a formal process for people to apply for pardons, and the agency sets standards for considering petitions. But President Trump’s White House has reportedly taken over much of the process, including appointing former pardon recipient Alice Johnson as the administration’s “pardon czar.”

Previous presidents have been accused of abusing their pardon powers, including Biden, whose last-minute pardons for family members and preemptive pardons for others drew bipartisan condemnation.

But Trump’s approach, which at times favors celebrities and those who have praised him, has drawn unique criticism.

“It’s like a celebrity pardon,” former George W. Bush administration official John Yoo told The Washington Post in June.

It has also created a cottage industry of lawyers and lobbyists who charge high fees to help clients seek pardons from President Trump, online publication NOTUS reported.

NBC News reported last month that President Trump rescinded the pardon over the summer as White House officials grew concerned about efforts to profit from it. But a number of pardons in recent weeks suggest that President Trump does not share those concerns at this time.

This could be good news for many celebrities who are being looked at as candidates for pardons or pay reductions from President Trump.

Based on public reporting and the president’s own statements, here’s who could be on that list:

The Democratic minority on the House Judiciary Committee on Monday shared “whistleblower information” that Maxwell, a longtime accomplice of notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, is preparing a “commutation application” to the Trump administration.

Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year sentence for serving as a procurer of teenage girls for Epstein. In early October, the Supreme Court refused to hear Maxwell’s appeal of his conviction.

In a letter demanding answers from Trump, the committee’s ranking member, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), charged that she had “reasonable reason to believe” that “you may grant her an extraordinary pardon.”

“You feigned ignorance and distanced yourself from the situation while blatantly refusing to rule out a pardon for her,” Raskin wrote to Trump.

President Trump has repeatedly given vague answers to questions about the possibility of pardoning Maxwell.

On October 6, President Trump was asked if he was considering pardoning her, saying, “I haven’t heard that name in a long time. I can tell you this: We’ll have to look at it. We’ll have to look at it.”

When asked for clarification on whether he was considering it, President Trump said, “I’m going to talk to the Department of Justice.” “I don’t think about it or think about it. I don’t know anything about it.”

“We do not comment on potential pardon requests,” a White House press secretary told NBC in response to the whistleblower allegations shared on Monday.

“As President Trump has said, we have never considered pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell,” the spokesperson said.

Lauren Hirsch, national director of the anti-trafficking organization World Without Exploitation, said in a statement Tuesday that Maxwell’s sentence “should be upheld like any other.”

“Unfortunately, granting a reduced sentence now would send a clear message to the survivors of her crimes, and the countless others who have been sexually victimized, that her power outweighs the truth and that the justice owed to survivors may be denied,” Hirsch said.

Music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs’ path to pardon appears narrow at best at this point.

Combs was found guilty in early October on two prostitution-related charges and sentenced to more than four years in prison.

A member of Combs’ legal team told CNN that after Combs’ conviction, his lawyers approached Trump to ask for a pardon.

“My understanding is that we have been in contact and had discussions regarding a pardon,” attorney Nicole Westmoreland told the news outlet.

President Trump said in an Aug. 1 interview with Newsmax that he opposed pardoning Combs.

On October 6, President Trump acknowledged that Combs’ team had contacted him.

“A lot of people have asked me for a pardon. I call him ‘Puff Daddy,’ and (he) has asked me for a pardon,” Trump said in the Oval Office.

When TMZ reported on October 20 that President Trump was considering commuting Combs’ sentence, the White House responded by saying the story was false.

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison at the end of 2022 for defrauding investors about the now-shuttered company’s blood testing technology.

President Trump has not commented on Holmes, claiming she was “wrongly convicted of defrauding investors,” but has not explicitly called for a pardon.

Nevertheless, Ms. Holmes is included on online gambling site Polymarket’s list of Trump pardon candidates, and her chances are now on par with Ms. Maxwell.

On Tuesday, Politico reported that some people who identify with the pro-Trump “Make America Healthy Again” movement are backing Holmes.

In late August, Holmes resumed posting to her dormant social media account, X. Some of her posts appear to refer positively to Trump and administration officials, while others detail allegedly harsh prison conditions.

On October 31, she wrote that President Trump contacted Santos, whose sentence had recently been commuted, and said, “I am glad that you are working to resolve the many issues that you have personally experienced.”

On November 3, she responded to a post calling President Trump “the best president ever” after the president reportedly intervened to help one of his supporters, Scott Adams, receive medical assistance.

SBF was convicted in late 2023 of defrauding customers of the virtual currency exchange FTX and is serving a 25-year prison sentence.

The New York Times and Wall Street Journal reported in March that the 33-year-old and his parents were seeking a pardon, including consulting with lawyers with ties to President Trump. Bankman Fried also expressed more conservative political views in media interviews after Trump returned to the White House.

President Trump has embraced the crypto industry in his second term, but there is no indication that he is considering pardoning Bankman Fried.

After President Trump pardoned Zhao, the founder of the cryptocurrency exchange Binance, on October 23, the possibility of a pardon for the SBF in the polymarket skyrocketed.

Asked why he pardoned Zhao in an interview on CBS’ “60 Minutes,” President Trump said, “Okay, are you ready? I don’t know who he is.”

Allies of Menendez, a former Democratic U.S. senator from New Jersey, have made multiple attempts to get Trump to pardon him or commute his 11-year prison sentence, NBC reported in May.

President Trump has not ruled out pardoning Menendez, but some of the former senator’s allies believe the president will ultimately veto it, NBC reported, citing people familiar with the matter.

Menendez, 71, was convicted in July 2024 of bribery and other crimes. He reported to prison in June.

— CNBC’s Dan Mangan contributed to this report.