Loyalty to Donald Trump can get you quite a bit these days.

The lead starts right now.

Pardons from prison, government jobs, President Trump's on a role extending a pattern of favor

to folks who have long pledged their loyalty to him.

And today he said he's considering yet another one.

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Welcome to the lead. I'm Jake Tapper. Loyalty will get you everywhere.

One defining characteristic of President Donald Trump has long been that he judges worth,

in part based on how loyal people are to him.

And this week we're seeing this manifest rapidly in the form of a something of a Trump loyalty rewards program,

pardons and job offers.

Let's start with his latest pardoned Pardons.

Yesterday, he pardoned his reality TV brethren Todd and Julie Crisley, who could walk out of prison in Pensacola, Florida.

At any moment, the two are stars of the

show, Chrisley knows best on USA Network. We're the Chrisley's tied in Julie Crisley. We live in a

neighborhood north of Atlanta, a gated neighborhood with celebrities here. The Crisleys traded that gated neighborhood for the gates of a

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