Trump was persuaded into pardoning golf partner's client (Timothy Leiweke) over 18 holes: Report [View all]

Source: The Independent

Trump was persuaded into pardoning golf partner’s client over 18 holes: Report

Gowdy told the WSJ that following a round of golf with Trump at Mar-a-Lago on November 16, the president asked if he needed anything, prompting talks of Leiweke pardons

Erin Keller
In Ohio
Saturday 06 December 2025 21:53 GMT

President Donald Trump granted a full pardon to entertainment executive Timothy Leiweke on Thursday, allegedly mere weeks after a round of golf at Mar-a-Lago with Leiweke’s attorney, former prosecutor and former Republican congressman Trey Gowdy.

Following 18 holes in Florida on November 16, Trump allegedly asked Gowdy if there was anything he could help him with, people familiar with the discussions told the Wall Street Journal in an article published Saturday.

That’s when Gowdy reportedly brought up that he felt Leiweke was being mistreated in his case, brought upon him by Trump’s own Justice Department’s push for fair ticket pricing.

Three weeks after the alleged golf outing, Trump pardoned Leiweke.

“I am extremely grateful that the president allowed me to raise that issue with him, and he is the president, and whatever decision was made after that, he was elected to make, I was not,” Gowdy told the WSJ in an interview.

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Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-timothy-leiweke-pardon-golf-b2879459.html

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