He decided to bet everything on this instead of taking the obvious escape route of resigning during the lame duck period and having President Pence give him a general pardon (Which is... one of those loopholes that we should've closed by now honestly)https://twitter.com/BrianWithCheese/status/1326384373936091136 …
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Replying to @arthur_affect @CZEdwards
Is it possible to pardon someone from state-law charges? I thought a pardon was no good for getting him out from the wrath of the NY AG.
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And wouldn’t constitute an admission of guilt? Like it would be funny if Trump rage quits, Pence becomes president, pardons Trump, Trump publicly accepts pardon, Trump gets prosecuted, and then that acceptance of said pardon is admitted into the record as evidence...
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Well, this isn't really true A pardon has no specific, clear meaning re: "guilt" or "innocence", it's just a statement the government will no longer be pursuing any action against you for your crimes
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Replying to @arthur_affect @queerthecloset and
Don't you lose the ability to plead the Fifth on matters relating to crimes you've been pardoned for? So a hypothetical pardoned Donald could be compelled to testify against Jared or Don Jr on campaign-finance shenanigans.
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Yeah kind of, although you also lose that protection once you've already been convicted or sentenced for the crime anyway
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