You do what's right because it's the right thing to do.
Trump's pardons were horrible. No Assange, Snowden. No Ross Ulbrecht (but a whole bunch of black drug dealers got pardoned). None of the January 6th trespassers.
But he hooked up Kwame Kilpatrick, Rod Blagojevich, and a slew of Wall Street crooks and swindlers.
You forget that he also pardoned Scooter Libby, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Steve Bannon, and Roger Stone. The man was fighting for his job in the days, weeks, and months after the election. The Presidency was stolen from him. I think he had more on his mind than making sure certain people on your list were pardoned.