How many felons has Obama pardoned?

Answer 1

None, as far as we know. Contrary to internet myths, the majority of people in the president's cabinet are law-abiding citizens; you may not agree with all of them politically, but there is no evidence that they are bad people. The president's administration is made up of a wide range of people: former businessmen and women, former politicians, former members of the private sector who are experts in a particular aspect of policy, etc. They include both Republicans and Democrats, men and women, people from all religious backgrounds and races, but they do not include any felons.

Answer 2

As of September 2016, President Obama has issued 562 total commutations, during the eight years of his presidency; the majority of these occurred over the past several years. Mr. Obama has shortened the sentences of more federal inmates than any other president since Calvin Coolidge during the 1920s. However, it should be noted that many of the "felons" whose sentences he commuted were low-level drug offenders, men and women who had been given excessively harsh sentences at the height of the War on Drugs.