If Trump pardons himself, or even pre-pardons himself, does he have to announce it? And does he have to be specific about what he is exhonerating himself about?
It's seems like a really f***ed up power to award to a President. It has "war-crimes" stamped all over it.
The other thing that's been bugging me about the news we've been getting over here, is in regards to the Op-Ed article. People are saying it's cowardly to hide behind the anonymity, but anyone with the memory span of a gold fish would look at the administrations history of firing people, and the entire point of letter. It was saying that there are people fighting and putting their loyalty to the people first, and not to their party. Kudos to them.
Both sides seem to be attacking the person's intentions, and MP's are boasting about how they do things openly (even if they try to hide who their campaign financiers are, or the 14 year old girls they grope, or the guys they blow in airport toilets, or their racist emails...), but there's more than one way to do something, and only an idiot wouldn't use subterfuge in a similar situation, unless they wanted to fired 5 minutes later.
It's like when you see reinactments of the civil war, where everyone is standing in a line to shoot each other. It's stupid, and redundant. Throwing your life/career away for a purpose of chivalry? Idiotic.