Nope. My sources are videos and eye witness reports via signed affidavits which carry jail time if they are found to be lying. Please take off your blind fold and look.
Presidential pardon power is enshrined in the Constitution and has been wielded ever since President George Washington's 1795 pardon of two men involved in the infamous Whiskey Rebellion; Most Americans understand that a pardon sets aside punishments for a federal criminal conviction, while fewer may realize that the conviction itself remains on the books after the pardon