Trump mega-donor's paper (Las Vegas Review Jounal) savages his pardon of Las Vegas Republican Michele Fiore

Source: The Guardian

Trump mega-donor’s paper savages his pardon of Las Vegas Republican

Las Vegas Review-Journal, owned by billionaire Miriam Adelson, condemns pardon of ex-lawmaker Michele Fiore

Adam Gabbatt and agencies
Sat 26 Apr 2025 21.08 BST
Last modified on Sat 26 Apr 2025 21.16 BST

A Nevada newspaper owned by a Donald Trump mega-donor has savaged the US president’s decision to pardon a Republican councilwoman who was convicted of using donations intended to fund a statue of a police officer to pay for cosmetic surgery.

The Las Vegas Review-Journal, owned by the billionaire Miriam Adelson, described the decision as a “debasement of presidential pardon power” in a scathing editorial published after Trump granted clemency to Michele Fiore, a former Las Vegas councilwoman and Nevada state lawmaker.

Fiore was convicted of fraud last year. Federal prosecutors said at trial that she had raised more than $70,000 for the statue of a Las Vegas police officer who was fatally shot in 2014 in the line of duty, but had instead spent it on cosmetic surgery, rent and her daughter’s wedding.

Adelson, who is worth $35bn, spent $100m on re-electing Trump in 2024, but apparently decided not to intervene when the Review-Journal, Nevada’s largest newspaper, attacked him on Friday.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/26/trump-miriam-adelson-las-vegas-review-journal