I followed loosely the Dinesh D Douza saga back in 2014, dude is one of the most despicable political fringe players I have ever read of, pushing clear racism and propaganda about Obama and Clintons.
The pardon means nothing, since the Judge decided to give him probation only, and even if he had served time, he would have been home by now.
Trump did this because Souza hated the Clintons, and can give him cover and ammo. He put a low budget movie in theaters in like 2015, which is basically a Trump conspiracy tweet in 90 min form, and an accompanying book.
Took a swipe at Preet Bahahra today, in the delusional narrative that Preet was trying to take down a hack, bottom feeder because he was jealous of his success as a fellow Indian man.