US District Judge Aileen Cannon signaled she is likely to push back the start of a trial in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case beyond the mid-December date proposed by federal prosecutors – but appeared deeply skeptical of arguments from Donald Trump’s lawyers that he couldn’t get a fair trial while running for president.
(Cool user name. I remember Karl Popper from my philosophy courses)
There’s a certain catch 22 with presidential pardons though: the pardoned accepts their guilty verdict, they are just absolved of the legal punishment phase.
I don’t think Trump could get over that first hurdle, though he is best characterized as playing both sides on anything that benefits him, so I’m sure he’ll try.
he would just lie and say that accepting a pardon from himself isn’t admitting guilt, he had to do it for <insert stupid reason>.