Pardons. Are they in Trump's personal best interest?

[Stinky The Clown]

He can pardon anyone for anything. That power is not diminished.

Unclear, still, is his ability to pardon himself.

As he faces a trial in the Senate, would outrageous pardons help or hurt him with the needed 17 senators, whoever they may turn out to be?

What pardons would they tolerate?

His kids? Probably.

The viking guy? Wow. I can't even guess on that one. How big a hero is the guy among rank and file Republican voters? That's the real question.


I keep flashing to the first Dirty Harry movie, where Clint Eastwood describes his gun, being held to the guy's head, and asking him if he feels lucky.

Don, how far do you think you can go You feeling lucky?

[Walleye]

1. I think he still trying to figure that out.

[intrepidity]

2. Good question

It's difficult to see any R senators being moved by this issue, as they've consistently shown to be only motivated by selfish interests. If it puts their job at risk, they'll pay attention.

[BGBD]

3. Trump only think in transactional terms

He only gives pardons to people that he thinks can help him in some way. Either somebody that will owe him a favor or somebody that pardoning he thinks could help him in some other way. He pardoned the drug trafficking grandma because he thought it would make blacks like him. He pardoned Mike Flynn specifically so that Flynn could go out and spread the stolen election bullshit with Lin Wood. It goes on and on.

There's no benefit to Trump to pardoning these insurrectionists. In fact, doing so would likely bring more heat on himself. He'll happily let them rot in jail because pardoning them would be a net negative for himself personally.

Pardoning himself is an interesting thought. He'll try it, but I don't think it'll hold up and doing it practically forced DOJ to bring charges against him or else they will be saying that Presidents can pardon themselves.