WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump’s pardons of white-collar criminals who support his presidency and donate to his campaigns stoked plenty of outrage from Democrats and former law enforcement officials last week.

Now, even some Republicans are signaling their discomfort with his decisions to grant clemency ― and the way he’s going about it.

“I think that when the president pardons someone, they need to carefully explain why injustice was done,” Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, told HuffPost. “And I think pardons should be rare, and President Trump likes pardons much more than I do.”

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In recent weeks, Trump has

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