Trump promised mass pardons for his top aides before he leaves office: report

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Since returning to office last year, President Donald Trump has used his pardon-issuing power to reward friends and allies, campaign donors, and the thousands of supporters who stormed the Capitol during a violent riot after he lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden.

Now, he is reportedly promising pardons to a broad swath of his aides as a way of shielding them from consequences for any potentially illegal acts committed in his service.

According to The Wall Street Journal, Trump has repeatedly promised pardons to administration officials on multiple occasions, including during one recent meeting at which he reportedly said he’d “pardon everyone who has come within 200 feet of the Oval” before he leaves office in January 2029.

The Journal also reported that he’d had a separate conversation with aides in his private dining room during which he’d mused about holding a news conference to announce the mass pardons in the waning days of his administration.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-promised-mass-pardons-top-193341838.html

Antyone surprised?

[Sogo]

1. I think the jury's still out (so to speak) about the viability of pre-emptive pardons, and

if he does "pardons," he's admitting to their crimes....no?

[Mark.b2]

2. A pre-emptive pardon shouldn't be a thing (nt)

[Tim S]

3. Dangling this out now forestalls any attempts to enact any 25th Amendment actions.

They can’t take him out before he pardons them (unless Vance wants to take on that historically dastardly act)