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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
Also when Bush was leaving office he pardoned several people involved in the Iran-Contra affair including Weinberger who had yet to stand trial. He, however, had been at least charged and the pardon wasn't a generic "of all wrong doing" type.
Lincoln also pre-emptively pardoned Confederate soldiers, so maybe it is a bit more enshrined and less controversial than I thought. What would be controversial, obviously, is if Trump can pardon himself.
Of course he can only pardon people at the federal level so state level could still get him and/or anyone else of any state crimes if they had committed them.
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Thanks. I was more of the mindset that at least charges would have to have been levied, not necessarily (although much more likely) that the punishment had been declared
More that a pardon I thought would apply to something known rather than a catch all for whatever that rascal may have been up to
(That is, the context for the pardon would be established).
Point stands that a USA chant is probably in order