The Wall Street Journal recently delivered a blockbuster investigative story on how allies and lobbyists close to President Donald Trump are getting enormous fees from people hoping to obtain presidential pardons.

As the publication has a strict paywall, the story isn’t widely available to hundreds of millions of Americans, who need to read it and draw their own conclusions.

However, southern California attorney Mitch Jackson and his legal team dug into the facts and produced an analysis for substack.com.

“What we found points to a disturbing pay to play system taking shape around one of the most serious powers in American government,” Jackson writes.

“In Donald Trump’s Washington, freedom has a price tag. The presidential pardon, one of the most serious powers granted by the Constitution, now looks like a product on a shelf. Allies and lobbyists close to the President chase huge sums from convicted defendants and their families in exchange for access to clemency. They treat justice like a private market where cash buys a shortcut out of consequences.”

In its story, The Wall Street Journal painted a picture of Trump loyalists and others charging hundreds of thousands and, in some cases, millions of dollars to seek pardons for convicted criminals.

Read more at Jackson’s Uncensored Objection blog.