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President Donald Trump on Monday pardoned a corrupt Virginia sheriff who in March was sentenced to 10 years in prison for federal bribery charges.

Former Culpepper Country Sheriff Scott Jenkins was convicted on, “one count of conspiracy, four counts of honest services fraud, and seven counts of bribery” after he accepted $75,000 in payments from people who wanted to become deputy sheriffs so that they could get out of speeding tickets. Jenkins made the men deputy sheriffs even though they “were not trained or vetted and did not render any legitimate services to the Sheriff’s Office or the citizens of Culpepper County,” the Department of Justice said in March after Jenkins was sentenced.

Jenkins also accepted a bribe from a convicted felon who wanted his gun rights restored.

But Trump claimed Jenkins, who was convicted of his crimes, was the “victim of an overzealous Biden Department of Justice, and doesn’t deserve to spend a single day in jail.” He pardoned Jenkins a day before he was set to report to federal prison to serve his sentence.

“He is a wonderful person, who was persecuted by the Radical Left ‘monsters,’ and ‘left for dead,'” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. “This is why I, as President of the United States, see fit to end his unfair sentence, and grant Sheriff Jenkins a FULL and Unconditional Pardon. He will NOT be going to jail tomorrow, but instead will have a wonderful and productive life.”

Jenkins—a Trump supporter—was Trump’s first pardon since making Ed Martin pardon attorney. Martin is the former acting U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C., whose nomination Trump was forced to pull after even the most sycophantic Senate Republicans said they would not support Martin for the position due to his role in the Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021.