Deep Dive: People pardoned by Trump want banks to forgive their past, too

WASHINGTON — It’s one thing to be cleared by the president. It’s another to be cleared by the bank.

Republican fundraiser Elliott Broidy was pardoned at the end of President Donald Trump’s first term after a conviction for violating a U.S. lobbying law. Yet when he applied for an American Express Co. credit card this year, the lender denied him, citing his criminal history.