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Can the President Pardon Himself?
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<blockquote data-quote="mark46" data-source="post: 71544018" data-attributes="member: 257078"><p>I believe that Trump can do just that. "innocence" is not a legal term. After being pardoned, Trump couldn't be found guilty.</p><p></p><p>The president (and most of his team) believe that the</p><p>Mueller's investigate of Trump is a witch hunt. One way to make any hunt for crimes by his team irrelevant is to pardon everyone on his team, including himself. In theory, that would move Mueller's focus to Russian actions, rather than Trump team actions, since no action by a member of a Trump team member could be brought to trial.</p><p></p><p>The primary problem with this is the political problem. The optics are terrible. The Senate and House investigations would continue, asking for the same information that Mueller was asking for. And, of course, pardoning everyone could be considered "abuse of power", something previously found to be an impeachable offense, but not necessarily involving any illegal actions.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mark46, post: 71544018, member: 257078"] I believe that Trump can do just that. "innocence" is not a legal term. After being pardoned, Trump couldn't be found guilty. The president (and most of his team) believe that the Mueller's investigate of Trump is a witch hunt. One way to make any hunt for crimes by his team irrelevant is to pardon everyone on his team, including himself. In theory, that would move Mueller's focus to Russian actions, rather than Trump team actions, since no action by a member of a Trump team member could be brought to trial. The primary problem with this is the political problem. The optics are terrible. The Senate and House investigations would continue, asking for the same information that Mueller was asking for. And, of course, pardoning everyone could be considered "abuse of power", something previously found to be an impeachable offense, but not necessarily involving any illegal actions. [/QUOTE]
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