What does that have to do with anything? Executive branch leaders can have both individual lives and public responsibilities.

If anything, it's better he was rejected for the job, as getting it would have provided an incentive to bury the prosecution.

To be rejected for a job and then pursue a criminal complaint against the person who rejected you has a lot to do with things like rule of law and corruption.

I agree it is a good pardon, the past administration + SEC were not laying a foundation of up to date commodity/currency/securities laws, they were enforcing by prosecution. This is not a way to run a country.