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President Trump has become “obsessed” with pardons — and is now strongly considering Kim Kardashian’s request to grant clemency to Alice Marie Johnson, a report says.

The president has been discussing the 63-year-old’s case in private with his aides and compiling lists of possible candidates to be pardoned, according to the Washington Post.

Sources familiar with the talks told the newspaper that Trump could sign a dozen or more pardons in the next two months.

Granting clemency has quickly become his new “favorite thing” to talk about, the sources said.

A pardon for Johnson — a nonviolent drug offender who never actually sold or exchanged any drugs — could come as early as Tuesday night, should her paperwork get pushed through.

Sources told the Post that it was being finalized earlier in the day. They said that Kardashian’s celebrity status was what attracted Trump to meet with her this week in Washington to discuss Johnson’s case, as well as prison reform.

While the president may like to pardon the great-grandmother, some members of his administration don’t feel the same way.

Chief of staff John F. Kelly, White House counsel Donald McGahn and other top advisers have reportedly voiced their disapproval.

Sources told the Post that Kelly has reviewed Johnson’s criminal background and her 1996 conviction on drug possession and money laundering charges — and doesn’t think she deserves to be free. McGahn has done the same and is said to be in agreement.

Trump has granted clemency to six people since taking office. He most recently pardoned Dinesh D’Souza, a conservative filmmaker and author who was given his reprieve last week.

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