“Trump Promises Mass Pardons to Staff Before Leaving Office”
“The unconditional power to pardon is one of the most sweeping powers offered to the presidency. This term, Trump has wielded clemency far differently than any other president, dispensing some 1,600 grants to date. Many have gone to allies and donors, or those who had hired them, coming after a social pull-aside or a round of golf. Some have received bipartisan criticism, including one to a crypto billionaire whose company boosted Trump’s own digital-currency company, and another to a former Honduran president convicted of conspiring with cartels to ship cocaine to the U.S. In Trump’s first term, he signed fewer than 250 pardons and commutations”“Trump said he would host a news conference and announce mass pardons before he left office, some of the people said. The people said they weren’t aware of specific pardons being offered to specific people for specific acts.”
“Liz Oyer, a pardon attorney at the Justice Department before being fired during Trump’s second term, said the offers could spur cabinet officials and administration officials to behave more aggressively. It seems like he previewed many times his intent to use the pardon power to bail out those who carry out his agenda faithfully,” Oyer said.”
In other words, do what ever you think you need to serve my interests and goals, to hell with legality and ethics
And why not, Trump learned quickly given January 6th he can do whatever he wants without consequences, might as well extend the “privilege” to the ass kissers
