Doesn’t Hillary have to be convicted of something in order to be pardoned?
Just asking...
No. If you read the situation with Nixon and Ford, Ford pardoned him BEFORE any trial, indictments etc. Probably lost him presidency, but he did it. If you read his one page on this, and I remember him coming on tv one night to say this, you can substitute Hillary for Nixon.
61 - Proclamation 4311 - Granting Pardon to Richard Nixon
September 8, 1974
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=4696