Trump says it’s ‘very unlikely’ he’ll pardon himself if he wins 2024 election

[Kamaji]

Trump says it’s ‘very unlikely’ he’ll pardon himself if he wins 2024 election

By Victor Nava
Published Sep. 14, 2023

Former President Donald Trump said Thursday that it is “very unlikely” he would issue himself a pardon if elected to the White House in 2024, but he refused to completely rule it out.

“I think it’s very unlikely. What, what did I do wrong? I didn’t do anything wrong,” Trump, 77, told Kristen Welker, host of NBC’s “Meet the Press,” when asked about a potential self-pardon. “You mean because I challenge an election, they want to put me in jail?”

Trump, the 2024 Republican presidential primary front-runner, recalled being offered the opportunity to pardon himself before leaving office in 2021, but ultimately decided against it.

“I could have pardoned myself. Do you know what? I was given an option to pardon myself. I could have pardoned myself when I left,” the former president revealed.

“People said, ‘Would you like to pardon yourself?’ I had a couple of attorneys that said, ‘You can do it if you want.’ I had some people that said, ‘It would look bad if you do it’ – because I think it would look terrible,” he added.

“Let me just say, I said, ‘The last thing I’d ever do is give myself a pardon,’” Trump recalled, arguing that he did “a great job as president.”

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2023/09/14/trump-says-its-very-unlikely-hell-pardon-himself-if-he-wins-2024-election/

[Maj. Bill Martin]

Wouldn't be any need to.  As President, he'd be immune from any sanction until he's out of office on Inauguration Day 2029. If the incoming President is a Republican, he gets pardoned anyway.  If it's a Democrat, then he resigns a day early and gets pardoned by the President For a Day Veep.

[Sighlass]

File this under the big ole file named "Yeah Right !".