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- President Donald Trump said he has “the absolute right” to pardon himself.
- Many constitutional scholars and experts disagree.
- Senate Republicans, even those who voted to remove Bill Clinton in the 1990s, said they were unsure if Trump could do so, but cautioned that it would be a political and legal disaster.
WASHINGTON — Can the commander-in-chief pardon himself? President Donald Trump sure thinks so, even though lawmakers broadly agree that such action would be “catastrophic” for him from both a legal and political perspective.
“As has been stated by numerous legal scholars, I have the absolute right to PARDON myself, but why would I do that when I have done nothing wrong?” Trump mused on Twitter Monday morning. “In the meantime, the never ending Witch Hunt, led by 13 very Angry and Conflicted Democrats (& others) continues into the mid-terms!”See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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