{"id":9683,"date":"2025-05-27T16:21:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T16:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/who-is-scott-jenkins-what-to-know-about-the-ex-sheriff-trump-pardoned\/"},"modified":"2025-05-27T16:21:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T16:21:12","slug":"who-is-scott-jenkins-what-to-know-about-the-ex-sheriff-trump-pardoned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/who-is-scott-jenkins-what-to-know-about-the-ex-sheriff-trump-pardoned\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Scott Jenkins? What to know about the ex-sheriff Trump pardoned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump granted another pardon on Monday for a former official he claimed was the victim of a &ldquo;weaponized&rdquo; Justice Department (DOJ) during the Biden administration, granting clemency to former Sheriff Scott Jenkins.  Jenkins served as the sheriff of Culpeper County in northern Virginia for a decade but lost his reelection bid in 2023 amid&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5319140-trump-pardons-scott-jenkins\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump granted another pardon on Monday for a former official he claimed was the victim of a &ldquo;weaponized&rdquo; Justice Department (DOJ) during the Biden administration, granting clemency to former Sheriff Scott Jenkins. Jenkins served as the sheriff of Culpeper County in northern Virginia for a decade but lost his reelection bid in 2023 amid&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}