You don’t think that if he’d pardoned as many as he could before he left office, that other Republican Senators wouldn’t have voted to convict him because of it, so he’d never be able to run for office again?
***No I do not, because it is illegal to impeach a former president. Trump knows it, congress knows it, and so should you.
They would have used that as an excuse to put one more nail in his coffin.
***That seems likely, but he is culpable here and needs to step up to the bar and take responsibility. He had the authority to pardon them and he didn’t use it. You’re saying it was for his own selfish political purposes.
Look at how many of them voted to accept Biden’s electors without question,
***Separate issue. There were several weeks between the election and inauguration where Trump failed to make the case... to them.
and some that had planned to reject them like Rand Paul and Marcia Blackburn, turned tail on January 6th, and voted to accept them.
***Yes, that happened because Trump chose to have a rally on that day and send his followers into the capitol. Notably, Trump did not join his followers to lead them. It would have been an extremely compelling political development for a standing president to get arrested on the steps of the capitol building alongside his followers.
By the way, how long do you think that public instruction you thought he should make to the FBI, would have lasted past 12 noon on January 20th?
***The instruction lasts for posterity. The willingness to follow it lasts for as long as we have a corrupt FBI, about ten seconds perhaps. But such corruption takes place in the light of day rather than in the shadows where it’s going on right now.
Biden would have rescinded it on the same day. You know that.
***But in the end there was nothing for Biden to rescind. You know that.
Can I have some of what you’re smoking?