Hmm, I read the article, and I need substantial legal sources to verify. It did say that if secret pardons were issued, they would come to light in the event of any indictments, so if there were secret pardons, we will find out about them.
I did check the link in the article but it goes to a page that discusses some Constitutional stuff but not pardons other than saying the president can grant them. Will have to look around a bit more later.
I read the article, and I need substantial legal sources to verify [comments about the possibility of the existence of secret pardons].
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Understandable. I did a number of searches and the closest I could get to a definitive answer was in this 2017 article. Because it was written by Time Magazine, and they’re not at all pro-Trump, it’s not a stretch to imagine they were looking for anything that would serve as a Gotcha! against the President.
This is why I assume that the Office of the Pardon Attorney had been contacted by Time for the information. (If I know to look to this source, surely they did too?) They likely searched high and low to find out whether or not PDJT could make a secret pardon and would have been giddy at the prospect of learning this might not be a possibility. It’s for this reason alone that I trust their conclusion.
They didn’t know back then that it would be a question we might be asking about their beloved Obama one day.