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    Default Trump Team explores pardoning power

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...7e5_story.html

    Some of President Trump’s lawyers are exploring ways to limit or undercut special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s Russia investigation, building a case against what they allege are his conflicts of interest and discussing the president’s authority to grant pardons, according to people familiar with the effort.

    Trump has asked his advisers about his power to pardon aides, family members and even himself in connection with the probe, according to one of those people. A second person said Trump’s lawyers have been discussing the president’s pardoning powers among themselves.

    Trump’s legal team declined to comment on the issue. But one adviser said the president has simply expressed a curiosity in understanding the reach of his pardoning authority, as well as the limits of Mueller’s investigation.
    Trump takes one more step towards the inevitable.

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    Even you have to admit the conflict of interest between Mueller and Comey.

    Wtf.
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    2013 Miss Universe pageant in Moscow. Meuller is on it!

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    Quote Originally Posted by anatta View Post
    2013 Miss Universe pageant in Moscow. Meuller is on it!
    Even then, The Great and All Powerful Putin knew Trump would be president!
    Coup has started. First of many steps. Impeachment will follow ultimately~WB attorney Mark Zaid, January 2017

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    He can pardon anyone for anything except himself so this story is silly. Typical for WaPo anymore.
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    The USA has lost WWIV to China with no other weapons but China Virus and some cash to buy democrats.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Darth Omar View Post
    Even then, The Great and All Powerful Putin knew Trump would be president!
    time travel collusion

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    "Do not think that I came to bring peace... I did not come to bring peace, but a sword." - Matthew 10:34

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    No matter what either side thinks, this is scary stuff and bad for my country.

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    He can pardon anyone, but once he does they can no longer plead the 5th on the matter.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mak2 View Post
    No matter what either side thinks, this is scary stuff and bad for my country.
    well it's good to see someone still GAF about the country.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jarod View Post
    He can pardon anyone, but once he does they can no longer plead the 5th on the matter.
    Accepting any pardon is an automatic admission of guilt...
    That is established law.
    USFREEDOM911 Expresses one of his homosexual prison rape fantasies;
    Quote Originally Posted by USFREEDOM911 View Post
    he may be getting several boners, they just won't be his.
    "You got shot in the balls and you're still walking!! Then this probably won't hurt you at all (as he unzips his pants)."




    Quote Originally Posted by USFREEDOM911 View Post
    I would kill someone who didn't pay me, after I give them a blowjob.
    Does that make me insane?

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    Quote Originally Posted by anatta View Post
    well it's good to see someone still GAF about the country.
    Trumpty sure doesn't.
    USFREEDOM911 Expresses one of his homosexual prison rape fantasies;
    Quote Originally Posted by USFREEDOM911 View Post
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    Quote Originally Posted by Buckly J. Ewer View Post
    Accepting any pardon is an automatic admission of guilt...
    That is established law.
    Wrong.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yaya View Post
    Wrong.
    How can a person be pardoned for something he never did?


    “What greater gift than the love of a cat.”
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