President Donald Trump, who for over a year certainly has been acting like a man who is guilty and has plenty to hide, just announced he believes he has “the ABSOLUTE right” to pardon himself. He cites unnamed legal scholars, and adds he doesn’t need to invoke that supposed right – which many legal scholars dispute – because he hasn’t done anything wrong.
This is, perhaps, one of the more egregious actions Trump has taken in relation to the Mueller probe.
It comes barely more than 12 hours after the president’s personal attorney made a thinly-veiled threat against a former Director of the FBI. Sunday night, to great shock across the nation, Rudy Giuliani said President Trump could shoot former FBI Director Jim Comey and still not be prosecuted.
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