Trump said he would consider pre-emptive pardons to protect Elon Musk and other close aides should Democrats take control of Congress
Donald Trump said he would be willing to protect Elon Musk and his staff if Democrats take control of Congress after the midterm elections this week.
In an interview for the “Pod Force One” podcast published Monday, Trump said he would move to “protect” the billionaire SpaceX and Tesla CEO if Congressional investigators targeted him.
Trump also indicated that he was weighing pre-emptive pardons for his close aides and others around him should the Democrats pursue investigations, according to Axios. It is a notion that the president has floated before to keep his team from facing prosecution for actions during the first two years of his term.
Tell me you’re guilty as fuck without telling me you’re guilty as fuck.
He’s unwittingly telegraphing that they should only pursue state-level prosecutions while he’s still in office. Not that they didn’t know that already.
Pardon for what? Election manipulation? Theft? Treason? Overstaying his education visa?
Yes
How fucked up of a country is it that, in America, if Hitler was around living in Texas and putting Jews in concentration camps and murdering them, the president could pardon him?
This isn’t a left or right. Abolish pardons. No one should be above the law. Yes I understand shitty governments would weaponize this fast. I don’t care.
Trump. Elon. The whole lot of them need to be on trial for policies that have murdered millions worldwide.
The Dems are made from rat DNA and filled with pastry mix. Just feed them antimatter.
Pardon away. It won’t stop state charges…
Won’t stop the hangings after Nuremberg 2.0
Pardoned for what?
They haven’t been convicted of any crimes (yet)?
How is a pre-emptive pardon even a thing? The notion alone seems like a perversion of the original intent.
Unfortunately, there is precedent as Ford’s pardon of Nixon included future crimes. It’s fucking stupid.
You can’t call it a “precedent” if it was not contested in a legal environment.
That said, the constitution allows too much bullshit. It needs to be culled.
Next president better reverse all these dollarstore pardons.
trump doesn’t care about helping anyone but he loves being thanked. He’s a pretty simple guy underneath all the simplicity.
Great. If pardoned, they can’t take the Fifth for anything they were pardoned for, and they can be nailed for contempt if they don’t testify or if they lie.
Only the guilty need pardons before the crimes are listed.
I feel like we’re getting dangerously close to the point where we start making our own justice
Someone already gave you guys a good example
‘Chop chop!!’
Elon needs to spend the rest of his pathetic loser life in prison
They invented “Presidential immunity”. Time for Dems to invent “void corrupt pardons”. Found in the same section of the Constitution.
