Trevor Milton
American entrepreneur and former CEO of Nikola CorporationWikipedia
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Nov 4, 2026
George NobleHOST
It's sort of like, you know, who was the idiot? It was Kramer, whoever it was in CNBC, you know, cling to every word, whatever.
George NobleHOST
And they're believing whatever, you know, Trevor Milton, Nikolai, please call your office.
George NobleHOST
You know, he went to the slammer, but he got out.
George NobleHOST
He was fired.
Devin StoneHOST
According to The Times, Trump's second term has spawned an entire pardon industry with wealthy criminals paying well-connected lawyers, fixers, and lobbyists to get to the president, sometimes hundreds of thousands of dollars or even a million dollars a pop.
Devin StoneHOST
Nikola founder Trevor Milton was sentenced to four years from defrauding investors.
Devin StoneHOST
He and his wife gave more than $1.8 million to Trump's re-election effort in the fall of 2024, and in March of 2025, he got a pardon.
Devin StoneHOST
Paul Walchak was sentenced to 18 months for pocketing millions in his employees' payroll taxes.
Caleb NewquistHOST
Liz Oyer is a former pardon attorney at the Department of Justice, and on her substack, she has been tracking the pardons and their cost, which is more than $1.5 billion.
Caleb NewquistHOST
This has included stories that we've covered on the show, namely Aussie Media and Carlos Watson and Trevor Milton.
Caleb NewquistHOST
In Milton's case, it was over $660 million that was forgiven.
Caleb NewquistHOST
President Trump's use of his clemency powers has been the subject of many stories in the media, including in-depth reporting by the New York Times, 60 Minutes, the Campaign Legal Center, and many others.
11 MINS LATER
Caleb NewquistHOST
All right.
Caleb NewquistHOST
Now we have seen other cases where donating to political organizations connected to president Trump have inexplicably resulted in clemency.
Caleb NewquistHOST
Trevor Milton, for example, episode one 13, right? But even after two and a half million dollars pledged for the ballroom and three and a half million donated to the super PAC, No pardon.
Caleb NewquistHOST
But then finally we learned that yet another defense lawyer who had worked for Donald Trump, Alina Haba got a job working for Julio Herrera Bellatini.
DylanHOST
The interior, the well, let me back up.
DylanHOST
If you don't know, Trevor Milton is involved.
DylanHOST
He is was with the Nikola electric car company.
DylanHOST
They had the Badger truck and some like an electric semi thing that all went down in flames.
John McElroyHOST
And that may happen a whole lot faster than alternative fuels.
John McElroyHOST
Sounds like what Trevor Milton was telling us.
John McElroyHOST
That's right.
John McElroyHOST
That's right.
Devin StoneHOST
According to The Times, Trump's second term has spawned an entire pardon industry with wealthy criminals paying well-connected lawyers, fixers, and lobbyists to get to the president, sometimes hundreds of thousands of dollars or even a million dollars a pop.
Devin StoneHOST
Nikola founder Trevor Milton was sentenced to four years from defrauding investors.
Devin StoneHOST
He and his wife gave more than $1.8 million to Trump's re-election effort in the fall of 2024, and in March of 2025, he got a pardon.
Devin StoneHOST
Paul Walchak was sentenced to 18 months for pocketing millions in his employees' payroll taxes.
Preston HollandHOST
And there was a lot of lasers and lights and loud music, and that was cool.
Preston HollandHOST
Uh, but then on X, uh, Trevor Milton and I kind of got into a little bit of a, I don't know, I wouldn't say a back and forth cause I didn't really reply cause I wasn't really sure how to reply.
Preston HollandHOST
Uh, but he started kind of going after all of his haters in the comments and I'm not even, I wouldn't even count myself as a hater to be clear.
Preston HollandHOST
I just kind of was speaking at how it was.
Chase TaylorHOST
That's for damn sure.
Zach AbrahamHOST
It kind of sounds like Trevor Milton trying to explain away the coasting truck down the...
Chase TaylorHOST
no it's just for you know oh and and he has his own startup that she's theoretically getting involved in as soon as she gets out of jail uh where they're gonna use lasers to look at and look through blood to do tests and stuff so it's kind of like theranos 2.0 which he literally called it and like bro like that's not very good branding wow they're like taking calls with investors and like
Zach AbrahamHOST
get out i'm not
Chase TaylorHOST
That's for damn sure.
Zach AbrahamHOST
It kind of sounds like Trevor Milton trying to explain away the coasting truck down the...
Chase TaylorHOST
no it's just for you know oh and and he has his own startup that she's theoretically getting involved in as soon as she gets out of jail uh where they're gonna use lasers to look at and look through blood to do tests and stuff so it's kind of like theranos 2.0 which he literally called it and like bro like that's not very good branding wow they're like taking calls with investors and like
Zach AbrahamHOST
get out i'm not
Casey J. AdlerHOST
Fisher points to one of those white-collar cases in particular.
Brendan FischerGUEST
Trevor Milton, he is a tech executive.
Brendan FischerGUEST
He claimed that his company had created this amazing EV truck.
Brendan FischerGUEST
There were a lot of just average people who got swayed by this con man and invested their hard-earned dollars in this company.
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