Trump said he would consider pre-emptive pardons to protect Elon Musk and other close aides should Democrats take control of Congress
Donald Trump said he would be willing to protect Elon Musk and his staff if Democrats take control of Congress after the midterm elections this week.
In an interview for the “Pod Force One” podcast published Monday, Trump said he would move to “protect” the billionaire SpaceX and Tesla CEO if Congressional investigators targeted him.
Trump also indicated that he was weighing pre-emptive pardons for his close aides and others around him should the Democrats pursue investigations, according to Axios. It is a notion that the president has floated before to keep his team from facing prosecution for actions during the first two years of his term.
…for a price, I’m sure.
“Pre-emptive pardon” is just another way of saying you are giving someone an exemption from having to follow the law.
They were crying when Biden did it.
Maybe it’s time to float rewriting the pardon powers so there’s checks and balances that can’t be abused, because you know if one did it more will do the same otherwise. Invalidate his pardon power, invalidate his pardons, crimes committed by those in office should not be pardonable, etc.
We need to make it so that the president can only pardon people who they don’t personally know, and who didn’t commit crimes that directly benefit them.
The J6ers shouldn’t have been pardonable, members of his administration should not be pardonable. Only private citizens whose crimes had no benefit to the president.
And there should be a limit to how many they get. Like 36 a year or something. Thats 3 per month; more than enough!
He’s unwittingly telegraphing that they should only pursue state-level prosecutions while he’s still in office. Not that they didn’t know that already.
The Dems are made from rat DNA and filled with pastry mix. Just feed them antimatter.
Tell me you’re guilty as fuck without telling me you’re guilty as fuck.
Everything out of that loser’s mouth for the last decade has been screaming that he’s guilty.
How fucked up of a country is it that, in America, if Hitler was around living in Texas and putting Jews in concentration camps and murdering them, the president could pardon him?
This isn’t a left or right. Abolish pardons. No one should be above the law. Yes I understand shitty governments would weaponize this fast. I don’t care.
Trump. Elon. The whole lot of them need to be on trial for policies that have murdered millions worldwide.
Pardon for what? Election manipulation? Theft? Treason? Overstaying his education visa?
Yes
Won’t stop the hangings after Nuremberg 2.0
Pardon away. It won’t stop state charges…
Next president better reverse all these dollarstore pardons.
If pardons were easily reversed, surely many would’ve been this year if not last year.
trump doesn’t care about helping anyone but he loves being thanked. He’s a pretty simple guy underneath all the simplicity.
Pardoned for what?
They haven’t been convicted of any crimes (yet)?
How is a pre-emptive pardon even a thing? The notion alone seems like a perversion of the original intent.
Unfortunately, there is precedent as Ford’s pardon of Nixon included future crimes. It’s fucking stupid.
You can’t call it a “precedent” if it was not contested in a legal environment.
That said, the constitution allows too much bullshit. It needs to be culled.
Great. If pardoned, they can’t take the Fifth for anything they were pardoned for, and they can be nailed for contempt if they don’t testify or if they lie.
