Expect a 'flurry' of pardons before Trump leaves office, source says

[signalmankenneth]

(CNN) The public should expect a "flurry" of pardons before President Donald Trump leaves office, a source close to the White House says, as has happened at the end of previous administrations.

This source, familiar with discussions on the matter, told CNN some of the President's advisers believe that it would perfectly fine for Trump to pardon his family members and other associates preemptively, even though they haven't been charged with any crimes.

Trump's allies in

https://twitter.com/x/status/1331445238620164099

have said the President should pardon himself. And Trump has retweeted similar sentiments of self-preservation.

Some of the President's advisers, the source said, believe that Trump could legally pardon himself -- an assertion that's disputed by some constitutional scholars.

The source close to the White House pointed to the case of President Gerald Ford's pardon of President Richard Nixon, who resigned during the Watergate scandal. Nixon had not been charged with a crime when he was pardoned.

CNN reported on Tuesday that associates in Trump's orbit, including his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, have approached the President to seek preemptive pardons.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/02/politics/donald-trump-flurry-of-pardons/index.html

 

[Grokmaster]

WON'T BE ANYTHING LIKE CLINTON OR OBAMA...THERER WILL BE NO ANTI-AMERICAN TERRORIST ARMERS ,OR ANTI AMERICAN TERRORISTS.....

 

[Micawber]

It doesn't cost Trump anything, creates a litigation mess, makes America look like third world shit and maybe spares a crony. That's Trump styled winning.

 

[PoliTalker]

He cannot pardon himself of crimes he has not been charged with.

There is no such thing as a blanket pardon for future possible crimes.

 

[moon]

He cannot pardon himself of crimes he has not been charged with.

There is no such thing as a blanket pardon for future possible crimes.

Unless you're an Izraeli fascist.

 

[Grokmaster]

It doesn't cost Trump anything, creates a litigation mess, makes America look like third world shit and maybe spares a crony. That's Trump styled winning.

CLINTON AND OBAMA PARDONED TERRORISTS WHO KILLED AMERICANS, AND TERRORIST ARMERS, AND YOU DIDN'T SAY SHIT.

 

[Hawkeye10]

In other news it will be the end of the year soon.

 

[Grokmaster]

President Barack Obama's use of his pardon power was relatively rare compared to other presidents. But he granted clemency—which includes pardons, commutations, and remissions—more times than any president since Harry S. Truman. Obama absolved the sentences of 1,937 convicts during his two terms in the White House.



https://www.thoughtco.com/number-of-pardons-by-president-3367600

 

[PoliTalker]

Hello moon,

Unless you're an Izraeli fascist.

Israel is just another tool for him. He cares nothing for anyone or anything besides himself.

If it came down to all his money and power or his daughter?

He would choose himself.

 

[Bill]

Sad, if Obama or Biden did it they would be outraged, but if trump does it they dream up reason why it's ok.....

trump called himself the law & order candidate, now he calls him self???

 

[Airstrip One]

Hunter Biden would be an amusing choice.

 

[Nordberg]

No president in history has done what Trump did since he lost the election. There is nothing normal about a guy doing all this. All the others who lost thought it was bad for the country to dispute the election. It was divisive and harmful to America. That is not a factor in Trump's arithmetic. Doing the right thing for the country? Not him. He has lost badly and keeps at it. There is no avenue to the Whitehouse. Why is he doing it other than he wants to split the country more? He is making Putin happy.

 

[cancel2 2022]

No president in history has done what Trump did since he lost the election. There is nothing normal about a guy doing all this. All the others who lost thought it was bad for the country to dispute the election. It was divisive and harmful to America. That is not a factor in Trump's arithmetic. Doing the right thing for the country? Not him. He has lost badly and keeps at it. There is no avenue to the Whitehouse. Why is he doing it other than he wants to split the country more? He is making Putin happy.

Trump answered my prayers and wants to personally piss you off, you're just a very naughty boy!

 

[CFM]

How will that compare to the 1927 clemency grants issued by Obama?

 

[Dutch Uncle]

...Trump's allies in

https://twitter.com/x/status/1331445238620164099

have said the President should pardon himself. And Trump has retweeted similar sentiments of self-preservation....

There's an option on my betting website that Trump will pardon himself. https://www.predictit.org/markets/detail/6453/Will-Trump-pardon-himself-in-his-first-term

Even though I took a big hit by betting on Trump winning reelection, I did place a small wager on his self-pardon.

 

[PoliTalker]

Hello signalmankenneth,

(CNN) The public should expect a "flurry" of pardons before President Donald Trump leaves office, a source close to the White House says, as has happened at the end of previous administrations.

This source, familiar with discussions on the matter, told CNN some of the President's advisers believe that it would perfectly fine for Trump to pardon his family members and other associates preemptively, even though they haven't been charged with any crimes.

Trump's allies in

https://twitter.com/x/status/1331445238620164099

have said the President should pardon himself. And Trump has retweeted similar sentiments of self-preservation.

Some of the President's advisers, the source said, believe that Trump could legally pardon himself -- an assertion that's disputed by some constitutional scholars.

The source close to the White House pointed to the case of President Gerald Ford's pardon of President Richard Nixon, who resigned during the Watergate scandal. Nixon had not been charged with a crime when he was pardoned.

CNN reported on Tuesday that associates in Trump's orbit, including his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, have approached the President to seek preemptive pardons.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/02/politics/donald-trump-flurry-of-pardons/index.html

"Pardon me" is something Trump would only say under the most dire of circumstances.

Things are looking quite dire for him.

 

[Dutch Uncle]

Sad, if Obama or Biden did it they would be outraged, but if trump does it they dream up reason why it's ok.....

trump called himself the law & order candidate, now he calls him self???

Agreed. Democrat hypocrisy is thick, but it runs second to Republican hypocrisy. If Trump presidency didn't prove that to most RWers then it never will.

Obviously what the idiots , ex-cons and dumbasses can't understand is the difference between granting clemency to small-time, non-violent drug offenses and pardoning your own kids for their illegal actions under the orders of the President of the United States.

 

[Bill]

Hunter Biden would be an amusing choice.

Maybe he can trump him-prepardon him..........

 

[Bill]

Trump answered my prayers and wants to personally piss you off, you're just a very naughty boy!

Why don't you fly over to him & give him a good bad bouy spanking like a real man rather than put our country through the drama & trump trauma..

 

[Bill]

Agreed. Democrat hypocrisy is thick, but it runs second to Republican hypocrisy. If Trump presidency didn't prove that to most RWers then it never will.

Obviously what the idiots , ex-cons and dumbasses can't understand is the difference between granting clemency to small-time, non-violent drug offenses and pardoning your own kids for their illegal actions under the orders of the President of the United States.

It is things like that that make many believe they are a cult.. So many find some way to rationalize the most evil & heinous of trump actions/crimes....... SAD