Trump pardons former sheriff convicted of briberyScott Jenkins was convicted of fraud and bribery in December"Sheriff Scott Jenkins, his wife Patricia, and their family have been dragged through HELL," Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social network. US President Donald Trump has issued a pardon to a former Virginia sheriff who was convicted on fraud and bribery charges. Trump called Jenkins a "wonderful person" who was persecuted by "Radical Left monsters" and "left for dead". The men who bribed Jenkins paid for auxiliary deputy sheriff positions so they could avoid traffic tickets and carry concealed firearms without a permit, the prosecutors said. In January, the president issued almost 1,600 pardons or commutations to people charged over the 2021 US Capitol riots.