That’s news to me. He was still president.
Billyboy Clinton issued pardons on his last day as prez IIRC.
It woulda even added MORE to the bullshiite theatre aspect of all those arrests. The President of the USA walks down to the jail where political prisoners are being held and demands that they be released because they are pardoned. Media gold for his next campaign.
I was wrong on that.
But, the correct path for Trump was not clear when that happened and between than and the Inaugural Ceremony.
You are wrong to blame President Trump for this.
He did make mistakes, but he did one great job as president in spite of what he faced.