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To: jdsteel
He can only pardon her for a CRIME. Which means post trial. Can't do a "whatever that thing was" pardon.

Nope. Ford pardoned Nixon for "whatever he did", warding off the painful circus of a trial preemptively.


173 posted on 01/11/2016 10:27:41 AM PST by ctdonath2 (History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the week or the timid. - Ike)
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To: ctdonath2

An excellent point, sir!!!! I stand corrected.


191 posted on 01/11/2016 1:54:23 PM PST by jdsteel (Give me freedom, not more government.)
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