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Amid relentless scrutiny over possible ties between his presidential campaign and Russia, an extraordinary suggestion has emerged - that Donald Trump could pardon himself or his family.
Source: BBC News
US President Donald Trump has insisted he has the "complete power" to pardon people, amid reports he is considering presidential pardons for family members, aides and even himself.
A Democratic Party spokesman has called the reports "extremely disturbing".
The US authorities are probing possible collusion between the Trump team and Russia. Intelligence agencies think Russia tried to help Mr Trump to power.
Russia denies this, and the president says there was no collusion.
The Washington Post reported on Thursday that Mr Trump and his team were looking at ways to pardon people close to him.
Source: BBC News
(Score: 4, Informative) by https on Monday July 24 2017, @07:28PM
Apparently, a working memory of a fortnight is discouraged when discussing American politics. Not being American, I'm breaking your silly customs.
Junior was well aware that their contact was a Russian operative because Goldstone told him so [nytimes.com] as part of setting up the meeting.
Matt Tait (who was not privy to Goldstone's emails) correctly deduced [lawfareblog.com] that the information most likely came from the Russian intelligence apparatus and was a legal dumpster fire waiting to be lit - and explicitly warned against touching it. He was shocked and surprised, but smart enough to stay away.
Offended and laughing about it.