The other thing to bear in mind here is that the promise to pardon his whole administration, *specifically at this point over two and a half years before the next election*, is like a big flashing neon sign saying “I AM DIRECTING THEM ALL TO COMMIT CRIMES.”

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It's gonna be so funny when someone tells him that pardoned co-conspirators can't invoke the 5th and he changes his mind at the last second.
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Like this is something I’ve been wondering about for a long time, the potential of using Trump v US + pardons to extend the immunity umbrella to the whole administration, and yeah, looks like they’re just gonna go ahead and do that.
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Isn't this more or less what happened with Manafort?
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Basically like, a crime committed with the understanding that you would be receiving a pardon for it after the fact, that’s got to make a pardon invalid, right? Like probably not in a legal/constitutional sense, but come the fuck on, this can’t work this way.
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The logical conclusion of a unitary executive with immunity
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I always assumed it was assumed by his cronies, and never expected it to be stated out loud. I guess it technically hasn’t been yet but close enough.
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Those pardons can't be treated as legitimate or real in any sense.
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Yeah, acting criminally in the expectation of a future pardon is equivalent to being preemptively pardoned for future acts, which aren’t valid.
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Hmm, this is probably just a coincidence: bsky.app/profile/adrianwashere.bsky.social/post/3mirz5zz2ls2x
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OR he could be about to imminently die. Maybe they're panicking because he's been told not to buy any unripe bananas and he needs to keep them from fleeing.
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Yes, the promise of a pardon for a crime not yet committed is... it's real bad, man!
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And Trump v US didn’t introduce the ability to do that, but (followed as it deserves not to be) it did foreclose the ability of investigating or prosecuting a president for promising and delivering corrupt pardons.
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