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Donald Trump Insists He Has 'Complete Power' to Pardon

posted by n1 on Monday July 24 2017, @11:22AM   Printer-friendly
from the friends-and-family dept.

MrPlow writes:

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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

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  • (Score: 2) by Non Sequor on Monday July 24 2017, @08:25PM

    by Non Sequor (1005) on Monday July 24 2017, @08:25PM (#543867) Journal

    Interesting idea, but all that puts the Trump administration into a position where they would antagonize Russian interests to demonstrate that they weren't working together.

    Trump has tried to claim that his support of military expansion and domestic energy production are evidence he's not what the Russians want but obviously those are things where the president has much less weight on the levers than you might think. However, generally for Trump, reversal of a position in response to criticism is off book. He always doubles down on anything he has wrong.

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