President Trump signed pardons for six people who he said were persecuted by the Biden administration for “fixing their car.”
“It is my Great Honor to have just signed Pardons for six people who were persecuted by the Biden Administration, and were in, or being sent to, prison, for ‘fixing their car,’” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
“While I know this sounds ridiculous, it is nevertheless a fact, and part of the Weaponization and Stupidity that our Country had to endure during four long years of Sleepy Joe Biden. I AM SETTING THEM ALL FREE, RIGHT NOW!” he added.
BREAKING: President Trump has pardoned “six people who were persecuted by the Biden administration, and were in, or being sent to, prison, for ‘fixing their car.’” pic.twitter.com/FuFOQNd6xu
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) July 3, 2026
CBS News explained further:
The White House did not immediately provide a list of the names of the six defendants pardoned, but lawyer Stewart Cables and lobbyist Jeff Daugherty, who are representing five of the six defendants, identified them to CBS News. They said Ryan and Wade Lalone, Matt Geouge, Tim Clancy and Mac Spurlock received presidential pardons.
A White House official later confirmed the pardons to CBS News and said that four others had also been pardoned, three for similar pollution violations. Along with Ryan and Wade Lalone, Geouge, Clancy and Spurlock, the official identified the other five as Joshua Davis, Barry Pierce, Aaron Rudolf, Adam Kidan and Jack Harvard.
Daugherty told CBS News, “Thanks to God for putting it on Trump’s heart to approve these pardons, and thank God for Donald Trump.” He said that Mr. Trump “is the only president who would have taken an interest in these parties, and the reason is he’s the only president to face such ferocious weaponization himself.”
Daugherty and Cables were informed of the pardons by the White House.
Earlier on Friday, CBS News was the first to report that Mr. Trump planned to pardon defendants who were prosecuted for tampering with air pollution control equipment in vehicles, in violation of the Clean Air Act.
According to Fox News, Trump signed a presidential memo making it easier for Americans to “repair their own vehicles by protecting self-repair rights and opening up options for aftermarket parts.”
“It came to my attention because I noticed they were arresting people for fixing their car,” Trump said, the outlet noted.
“We rule by common sense,” he added.
“These are the crazy Democrats. That’s what they want,” Trump said.
Watch below:
🚨 JUST IN: President Trump announced he has pardoned SIX PEOPLE who were sent to prison by the Biden administration for “fixing their car”
The Biden regime was MILITANT about punishing people for doing their own repairs, weaponizing the EPA and DOJ against them.
47 reversed… pic.twitter.com/qcRbehoTjg
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) July 3, 2026
Fox News has more:
The executive clemency is seemingly linked to a federal environmental case involving Elite Diesel Service Inc. and its owner, Troy Lake Sr.
Lake received a full and unconditional pardon Nov. 7, 2025, wiping away his conviction in the case United States v. Elite Diesel Service, Inc. et al.
According to federal plea agreements, Elite Diesel had instructed employees to disable computerized on-board diagnostic systems on at least 344 heavy-duty commercial trucks between January 2017 and December 2020.
The diagnostic systems are federally mandated under the Clean Air Act to monitor emissions control systems.
Lake was sentenced on Dec. 5, 2024, to more than a year in prison and a $2,500 fine. The company was put on probation for five years, ordered to pay a fine of $37,500 and required to make a $12,500 payment to a Colorado Department of Public Health and the Environment program designed to repair emissions systems for low-income drivers.
Government prosecutors also argued that Elite Diesel’s co-conspirators, other diesel truck garages and fleets, hired Lake’s company to manipulate the computers so that emission system malfunctions would go undetected, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado.
The EPA’s sprawling investigation ultimately swept up eight alleged co-conspirator garages and fleets across seven states, including Kansas, North Dakota and Oklahoma.
