[Verginius Rufus]

Ford pardoned Nixon when he had not been convicted, or even tried in a court of law.

It would be useless to put Obama on trial. The judge would be someone he or Biden appointed and all of the jurors would be Democrats who hate Trump. So few people in DC voted for Trump that it would be easy for the defense attorneys to keep anyone like that off the jury.

[central_va]

If the pardon included a public mea culpa I’d go for that.