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Tom Rinaldo

(22,911 posts)
Tue Dec 18, 2018, 12:07 PM Dec 2018

If Trump pardons any of those found guilty in the Mueller probe he seals his own fate

Watching the investigations all unfold I no longer have a shred of doubt that extensive evidence exists to convict Trump of numerous serious crimes. His best and really only hope of avoiding significant jail time would be be a presidential pardon like the one Ford gave Nixon. The rationale would be the same, to save the nation from an unprecedented divisive prolonged political ordeal. That is Trump's only hope to avoid multiple trials.

The one thing Trump can do to totally close that escape hatch off from him would be to pardon those found guilty of abetting his crimes against America while he remains President. America will not stand for a cover up to a cover up to a cover up of high crimes and misdemeanors, once the shit really starts hitting the fan.

Nixon got his pardon after he "voluntarily" resigned, after the verdict of history against him was rendered and widely accepted. Then the case could be made by Ford for "turning the page" to focus on America's future rather than stay mired in fighting the recent past. Without at least that element of closure Trump can never be pardoned. The last card he will get to play on behalf of his freedom is ceasing to obstruct America moving forward without him. Maybe, just maybe, the parental instinct shared by so many millions will allow Trump to manage to pardon his own children before he leaves office, and still be pardoned himself later. That is far from certain. But if Trump pays off his broad cast of co-conspirators with pardons in reward for loyalty to him in refusing to cooperate with federal prosecutors, he will leave our political system no choice but to nail him to the wall. Where he rightfully belongs

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If Trump pardons any of those found guilty in the Mueller probe he seals his own fate (Original Post) Tom Rinaldo Dec 2018 OP
An acquittal in the Senate. NT mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2018 #1
But he would still be criminally liable once he was out of office Tom Rinaldo Dec 2018 #2

Tom Rinaldo

(22,911 posts)
2. But he would still be criminally liable once he was out of office
Tue Dec 18, 2018, 12:13 PM
Dec 2018

even if a Senate acquittal delayed his exit by a short while. But he probably is too pig headed to negotiate his resignation from office, which is the wisest course of action for him.

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