She has urged the president to pardon Alice Marie Johnson, who is serving a life sentence without parole for a nonviolent drug offense … Without the aggressive use of pardon, parole, and commutation, we’ve created a system that is no more sustainable than Britain’s Bloody … I have no doubt that Trump has ulterior motives with his recently discovered love of the pardon.…
currently going through another existential media meltdown, this time over the prospect of President Trump declaring he could possibly pardon … In just about eighteen months’ time the very idea of the President executing a pardon to his mirror has the journos in a lather. … The President has not been convicted of a crime, and thus the talk of a pardon is just that.…
Mueller is trying to up the pressure for Manfort to lie or for Trump to pardon him – either one suits Mueller and his band of Democrats … At this point, Mueller would probably be happier having Trump pardon Manafort so he can say, “damn, I nearly had him” rather than prosecuting…
been several media hits on Ted Cruz lately over an apparent reluctance to comment on whether or not President Donald Trump can pardon … There is nothing to pardon yet. … on the table right now because there is no demonstrable criminal conduct to pardon.…
Rudy Giuliani told George Stephanopoulos on This Week President Donald Trump doesn’t intend to pardon himself.
Huh? … Trump have the power to pardon himself?
"He's not, but he probably does," Rudy Giuliani tells @GStephanopoulos. … @GOPLeader on whether President Trump has the power to pardon himself: "I don't think a President should pardon themselves."…
Rod Blagojevich is a corrupt man who received a pardon from President Donald Trump. … Just because the Left and media would be critical of the pardon doesn’t mean we have to defend it.…
election meddling because the Constitution empowers him to, “if he wished, terminate the inquiry, or even exercise his power to pardon … Indeed, he could “terminate the inquiry, or even exercise his power to pardon” himself at any time “if he so desired.” … Could he self-pardon for “all prior federal crimes,” including things like tax evasion, and continue doing so each morning for the…
As he was handing out this one pardon, President Trump hinted that he has others in mind. … /1
— ProfanityLadenTweetsHat (@Popehat) May 31, 2018
/2 The Libby pardon and rumored Stewart pardon say "the government abuses … "
— ProfanityLadenTweetsHat (@Popehat) May 31, 2018
/4 The rumored Blagojevich pardon, and to some extent the Libby and Arpaio…
Will be giving a Full Pardon to Dinesh D’Souza today. He was treated very unfairly by our government!
— Donald J. … cGHzcgwSnK
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) May 31, 2018
What I think this action indicates is that Trump has decided that he is going to pardon … Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 27, 2018
The D’Souza pardon is just checking the temperature and preparing the battlefield.
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Let us, for the sake of argument, say Trump grants himself a pardon. … The pardon would affect Trump only after he left office. … Of course, any successor could then pardon him as Ford pardoned Nixon.…
, given the disapproval numbers, the “unfair” number, and the ambivalence of Congress to Mueller, I think Trump could very well pardon … If Mueller succeeds in revoking Manafort’s bond on Friday, I think the chance of a pardon there goes sky high.…
Then there’s the question of a pardon. Would Joe Biden really sit idly by and let Hunter Biden rot in prison? … But if Joe Biden issues a pardon, the corruption will be impossible to sweep under the rug.…