President Trump pardons six people convicted of vehicle emissions tampering

President Donald J. Trump signed pardons on July 3 for six individuals convicted in emissions-tampering cases. The prosecutions were brought by the EPA under the Biden administration and centered on modifications made to vehicle emissions systems.

Trump stated that the six were either in prison or being sent to prison for fixing their cars. He described the prosecutions as part of the weaponization and stupidity during the prior four years of the Biden administration. "It is my Great Honor to have just signed Pardons for six people who were persecuted by the Biden Administration, and were in, or being sent to, prison, for 'fixing their car,'" Trump said.

He added that he was setting them all free immediately. The pardons address EPA emissions-tampering prosecutions pursued under the previous administration.