Let's say that the allegation is true that Matt Gaetz preemptively asked for a Presidential Pardon

[no_hypocrisy]

for all possible violations, crimes, etc.

My questions:

A) Was it granted but not publicized?
B) If Trump didn't grant it, then why not?
C) Gaetz was looking for pardons for potential allegations/indictments in his past (not yet filed in criminal court). If Trump had granted him that pardon, why would he leave out Ivanka, Junior, and/or Eric?

[gab13by13]

1. IMO, if Trump granted Gaetz a pardon,

it will turn out worse for the GQP, the Grand Q Pervert Party. Protecting a child molester isn't going to go over well with normal people who aren't zombies.

[drray23]

2. According to the reporting it was not granted

it went nowhere. The white house aides nixed it because it was so broad it was a bit much even for the Trump whitehouse.
Thats what was reported on O"Donnel by Michael Schmidth , the New York times reporter who broke the story.

[mopinko]

3. d) did he attempt to bribe the prez?

will he be charged on that?

[mahina]

4. Pardon would be accepting guilt.

[onenote]

7. Not necessarily

Pardons can and are granted to absolve individuals who the president declares to have been unjustly or wrongly charged or convicted.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

9. Agreed. I wish people would retire that nonsense idea.

[mahina]

12. I didn't know that, thanks.

[marble falls]

5. Because going to jail himself scared the exPresident* enough his advisors were able to ...

... keep him from being tempted, Barr knew there was no hiding or claiming the prosecution was political, so a pardon was going to be very controversial. Maybe it was felt letting Gaetz dangle slowly in the wind would take attention away from the exPresident*.

If Gaetz had a super secret get out of jail card, now would be the time to use it. Also, he'd be subpoenaed without benefit of his 5th amendment rights if he had been pardoned for the crimes others are going to be prosecuted for.

[malaise]

6. There were and are rumors that he did pardon all his kids n/t

[onenote]

8. there are no secret pardons.

Never have been.Never will be.

It would be impossible to make it stick in court.

[malaise]

10. That is good news

Lock them all up

[FSogol]

11. If there was a secret pardon, then the Biden DOJ would know. n/t