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Woolfsmck

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He's not "requesting" pardons (he's the granter of pardons); he's asking people's opinions on whether or not it would be legal for him to grant them. And, per the article, he's been doing that (asking) since 2017.

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TimisaMonster

Even if he gets away with pardons...he is an old man who has ****ed over so many people and this country...he WILL vet what's coming to him...there's no escaping and this shows he is panicking 

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2 hours ago, jacs vs looser said:

"others have argued such a move is highly unlikely, if for no other reason than doing so would quite clearly imply some sort of guilt"

Like all out of all things, *optics* would stop him :huntyga:

Anyhow, it shouldn't be possible for Presidents to be pardoned before being charged, that's such a clean slate for them to do whatever they want and get away with it, what an absolute perversion of the law. 

They aren’t referring to optics. More that the appearance of guilt could put him in legal trouble with NY state

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LORD GAGA

He can request all he likes... fact is once he leaves office he will be at the full force of the law and there's an entire record of the fraud, treason, underhanded things him and his family have done. 

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3 hours ago, FATCAT said:

@Woolfsmck I didn't quite follow what you were going for, but I applaud you for your effort because it was probably pretty funny :flower:

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3 hours ago, LORD GAGA said:

He can request all he likes... fact is once he leaves office he will be at the full force of the law and there's an entire record of the fraud, treason, underhanded things him and his family have done. 

Maybe, it may end up that he steps down and gets Pence to pardon him. In that case it'd only be the full force of state law, since there's precedent for Nixon. That being said, if he self-pardons & leaves office, it will probably be taken to the supreme court or just outright ignored & he gets charged anyway.

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FATCAT
2 hours ago, Woolfsmck said:

K...I am a bit foggy at times...

No worries man, I get that same way!

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5 hours ago, Biological Stasis said:

I doubt it. Don't you have to face trial and admit guilt in order to be pardoned? I can't see Trump ever doing that. 

You are correct, you have to accept the pardon within court proceedings, which also means that you're accepting guilt and can be called to testify/spill about your accomplices. If you don't, you're committing a new crime :green:

Presumably pre-emptive pardons would never be able to cover every little nit-pick crimes he's committed, anyway. I'm sure there's even some he's not aware of, especially when it comes to financial ties/Tax violations. That being said, it would be tragic if the supreme court sided with Trump if he decided to just write a few one-liners like "all crime" or "breakage of any federal code" blah blah blah. I mean, imagine the optics of that. You could say he pardoned himself of ANYTHING. You could say that he pardoned himself of bank robbery or smuggling, it'd all be under that same umbrella. 

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5 hours ago, Biological Stasis said:

I doubt it. Don't you have to face trial and admit guilt in order to be pardoned? I can't see Trump ever doing that. 

Don’t necessarily need a trial but do need to admit guilt. But they’ll get round it by pardoning “any and all crimes that may or may not have ever been committed”

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DelusionalGaga

Wait so he could pardon himself for crimes he has been not charged with yet and any other future crimes? Why would something like this even exist? :rip:

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Idk about america but if one of our leaders did as little during s pandemic as trump did they would not only be fired but they would be charged with endangering lives also.

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