Get Ready... Trump is preparing DOZENS of Pardons (per CNN)

[berni_mccoy]

https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/06/politics/donald-trump-pardons/index.html

Trump considers dozens of new pardons

The White House has assembled the paperwork to pardon dozens of people, two sources with knowledge of the developments tell CNN, signaling that President Donald Trump is poised to exert his constitutional power and intervene, in some instances, where he believes the Justice Department has overstepped.

The administration has prepared the pardoning paperwork for at least 30 people, the sources tell CNN.

I don't doubt that some of the people under indictment as part of the Mueller investigation are among those 30 people... I wonder if he included a pardon for himself...

I hope Mueller is ready.

[underpants]

1. FREE MUMIA!

[CatMor]

2. He's supposed to be the president....

not a prison warden

[BSdetect]

3. He can't pardon before they are charged and convicted. Or can he?

If he does attempt this pardon spree he is misusing presidential powers anyway. Not allowed.

And by accepting a pardon they are admitting guilt.

A legal minefield.

[Lochloosa]

4. Yes he can. Nixon was pardoned but never charged.

[C_U_L8R]

6. Wouldn't a pardon in mid-investigation be obstruction??

He'd be pardoning co-conspirators... that seems destined to blowback all over him.

[berni_mccoy]

8. No charge is required. Lincoln issued a blanket pardon for Confederate soldiers.

[onenote]

5. That number of pardons is not unprecedented

While it is true that pardons are less commonly granted in recent years than in the past, as recently as Truman and FDR, pardons were given out in fairly large numbers. Both of those presidents averaged around 240 pardons a year.

Obama was pretty sparing in his use of the pardon power -- until the end of his second term. Then he made up for lost time by granting nearly 80 pardons in one fell swoop in December 2016 and another 60 at one time a few days before Trump's inauguration.

The issue from a political standpoint shouldn't be how many pardons, it should be who is getting them.

[berni_mccoy]

7. Agreed. The point I was making was that I suspect

He will slip in people who are convicted or indicted in the Mueller investigation.

[Nitram]

9. LOL, Trump is hoping no one will notice Manafort is on the list if it is long enough.

Maybe he'll slip himself into the list, too.

[Brother Buzz]

10. Mueller et al. will be taking names

Hell, it's conceivable a few of the names flew under their radar, but I suspect not. Oh, but to be a fly on the wall in a couple of select DC rooms.

[moondust]

11. What's the current price for a pardon?

And who's paying for them?

You know damn well he's selling them.