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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf you can forgive yourself, can you pardon yourself?
Is that the same as granting yourself forgiveness?
I think comforting ourselves with semantics is unwise. I think we can count on that malignant jackass to do absolutely everything to save his gross saggy butt. Thank God he cant pardon himself in state court.
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If you can forgive yourself, can you pardon yourself? (Original Post)
mahina
Nov 2020
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Sneederbunk
(17,352 posts)1. I do not forgive myself as an elected official under the authority of law.
Eyeball_Kid
(7,604 posts)2. Trump will try, but he'll fail.
No court would allow it to stand. Setting that precedent would destroy the country. Judges want to make a living, too.
3catwoman3
(28,898 posts)3. Did not Trump once claim that he has never asked for forgiveness because...
...he has never done anything wrong?
If he has never done anything wrong, why should he need to be pardoned?
