{"id":750767,"date":"2026-02-14T04:14:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T04:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/750767\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T04:14:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T04:14:18","slug":"dallas-cowboys-great-nate-newton-salutes-president-trump-after-pardon-thank-you-sir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/750767\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Cowboys great Nate Newton salutes President Trump after pardon: &#8220;Thank you sir&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nate Newton, a three-time <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/super-bowl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Super Bowl<\/a> champion and one of the defining forces of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/dallas-cowboys\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Dallas Cowboys<\/a>&#8216; 1990s dynasty, thanked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">President Trump<\/a> on Friday after receiving a pardon for his 2002 federal drug\u2011trafficking conviction.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would like to thank President Trump and all of those that work under him who put this Pardon into effect,&#8221; Newton said on the social media platform X. &#8220;Thank you Sir for taking time out of your busy day in running this country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a separate post, Newton also thanked Cowboys owner Jerry Jones &#8220;for sharing that great news last night&#8221; of his presidential pardon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;May God bless You, Mr. Jones and your Family. Thank you my Friend!!!&#8221; wrote Newton, who was nicknamed &#8220;The Kitchen&#8221; during his playing days.<\/p>\n<p>Background on conviction<\/p>\n<p>A two-time All-Pro and six-time Pro Bowler, Newton pleaded guilty to the federal drug\u2011trafficking charge after authorities discovered $10,000 in his pickup truck and 175 pounds of marijuana in an accompanying car driven by another man.<\/p>\n<p>Newton helped power an offensive line that defined Dallas&#8217; championship era, which included Super Bowl wins in 1992, 1993 and 1995.<\/p>\n<p>Other pardons announced<\/p>\n<p>Newton was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-pardons-5-ex-nfl-players-crimes-including-drug-trafficking-joe-klecko-nate-newton-billy-cannon\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">one of five former professional football players Trump pardoned<\/a> on Thursday, one posthumously, for crimes ranging from perjury to drug trafficking.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>White House pardon czar Alice Marie Johnson announced the pardons of Newton and ex-NFL players Joe Klecko, Jamal Lewis, Travis Henry, and the late Billy Cannon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As football reminds us, excellence is built on grit, grace, and the courage to rise again. So is our nation,&#8221; Johnson wrote on X, thanking Trump for his &#8220;continued commitment to second chances.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mercy changes lives,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nate Newton, a three-time Super Bowl champion and one of the defining forces of the Dallas Cowboys&#8216; 1990s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":750768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2066],"tags":[230,229,257,2461,7,2883,122,6,963,51],"class_list":{"0":"post-750767","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-cowboys","8":"tag-cowboys","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-cowboys","11":"tag-dallascowboys","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-jerry-jones","14":"tag-national-football-league","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-north-texas","17":"tag-texas"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116067045826493670","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}