President Trump pardoned a Virginia sheriff convicted of bribery on Monday, the latest instance of Trump using his presidential pardon power to help his supporters.

Scott Jenkins, 53, was the sheriff of Culpeper County until 2023, when he was charged with accepting more than $75,000 in bribes to hand out badges and guns to local businessmen as volunteer deputy sheriffs.

Jenkins was scheduled to begin serving a 10-year prison sentence on Tuesday. Instead, Trump announced the pardon and criticized former President Biden’s administration.

Culpeper County, which sits about 50 miles southwest of Washington, D.C., first elected Jenkins as sheriff in 2011, a position he maintained until his electoral defeat in 2023. The feds said that during Jenkins’ tenure, he solicited and accepted br

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