Over the past year, Michelino Sunseri, a professional trail runner, has had a recurring joke with the patrons at his other job as a bartender in the mountains of Wyoming .

“Oh, dude,” he recalls the locals saying, “You’re probably just going to get pardoned by Donald.”

Sunseri couldn’t help but laugh this week as he recounted his place at the center of a tale that has reverberated throughout his community of mountain obsessives, a vocal set of libertarian legal enthusiasts, and, in the end, the White House . The absurdist gag had come true: On Tuesday, President Trump pardoned Sunseri for his crime of using a restricted path for two minutes in the course of breaking a record for the fastest known time running up and down the tallest peak in the Teton Range.

The saga began in Sep

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