President Trump’s first act would be to pardon Hillary to help the country heal.
Here is the pre-printed, leaked, statement planned by Trump’s campaign. This might be a Free Republic exclusive:
President Trump Announcing Hillary Clinton’s Pardon
Ladies and gentlemen:
I have come to a decision which I felt I should tell you and all of my fellow American citizens, as soon as I was certain in my own mind and in my own conscience that it is the right thing to do.
I have learned already in this office that the difficult decisions always come to this desk. I must admit that many of them do not look at all the same as the hypothetical questions that I have answered freely and perhaps too fast on previous occasions during my campaign.
My customary policy is to try and get all the facts and to consider the opinions of my countrymen and to take counsel with my most valued friends, and I have fabulous friends - that I can tell you. But these seldom agree, and in the end, the decision is mine. To procrastinate, to agonize, and to wait for a more favorable turn of events that may never come or more compelling external pressures that may as well be wrong as right, is itself a decision of sorts and a weak and potentially dangerous course for a President to follow.
I have promised to uphold the Constitution, to do what is right as God gives me to see the right, and to do the very best that I can for America, to make it great again.
I have asked your help and your prayers, not only when I became President but many times since. I have fabulous support form the Jews and evangelicals - that I can tell you. The Constitution is the supreme law of our land and it governs our actions as citizens. Only the laws of God, which govern our consciences, are superior to it.
As we are a nation under God, so I am sworn to uphold our laws with the help of God. And I have sought such guidance and searched my own conscience with special diligence to determine the right thing for me to do with respect to my predecessor in this place, Barrack Hussein Obama, and his loyal former Secretary of State.
Theirs is an American tragedy in which we all have played a part. It could go on and on and on, or someone must write the end to it. I have concluded that only I can do that, and if I can, I must.
There are no historic or legal precedents to which I can turn in this matter, except for President Ford’s pardon of President Nixon, none that precisely fit the circumstances of a Secretary of State who so grossly disregarded the security of government documents and secure communications. But it is common knowledge that serious allegations and accusations hang like a sword over our former Secretary of State’s head, threatening her health as she tries to reshape her life, a great part of which was spent in the service of this country, and especially her family slush fund, without any mandate of its people.
After years of bitter controversy, stalling of the former Secretary of State, obfuscation by the former Attorney General, false and derisive claims of Fifth Amendment protections by her former staff, and divisive national debate, I have been advised, and I am compelled to conclude that many months and perhaps more years will have to pass before Hillary Clinton could get to trial by jury in any jurisdiction of the United States under governing decisions of the Supreme Court.
I deeply believe in equal justice for all Americans, whatever their station or former station. The law, whether human or divine, is no respecter of persons; but the law is a respecter of reality, a concept lost on Hillary Clinton.
The facts, as I see them, are that a former Secretary of State, should have equal treatment with any other citizen accused of violating the law, would be fairly and objectively prosecuted, then penalized while obtaining a speedy determination of her guilt in order to repay a legal debt to society.
During this long period of delay and potential litigation, ugly passions would again be aroused. And our people would again be polarized in their opinions. And the credibility of our free institutions of government would again be challenged at home and abroad.
In the end, the courts might well hold that the people of the United States had been denied due process in prosecuting Hillary Clinton, and the verdict of history would even more be inconclusive with respect to those charges arising out of the period of her reign as Secretary of State, of which I am presently aware.
But it is not the ultimate fate of Hillary Clinton that most concerns me, though surely it deeply troubles every decent and every compassionate person. My concern is the immediate future of this great country, which we will make great again.
In this, I dare not depend upon my personal sympathy as a long-time friend of the former Secretary of State, nor my professional judgment as an entertainer, and I do not.
As President, my primary concern must always be the greatest good of all the people of the United States whose servant I am. As a man, my first consideration is to be true to my own convictions and my own conscience, which is a very good conscience by the way.
My conscience tells me clearly and certainly that I cannot prolong the bad dreams that continue to reopen a chapter that should be slammed shut. My conscience tells me that only I, as President, have the constitutional power to firmly shut and seal this book. My conscience tells me it is my duty, not merely to proclaim domestic tranquillity but to use every means that I have to insure it. I do believe that the buck stops here, that I cannot rely upon public opinion polls to tell me what is right. I do believe that right makes might and that if I am wrong, 10 angels swearing I was right would make no difference. I do believe, with all my heart and mind and spirit, that I, not as President but as a humble servant of God, will receive justice without mercy if I fail to show mercy.
Finally, I feel that Hillary Clinton and her loved ones have suffered enough and will continue to suffer, no matter what I do, no matter what we, as a great and good nation, can do together to make his goal of peace come true.
Now, therefore, I, Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, pursuant to the pardon power conferred upon me by Article II, Section 2, of the Constitution, have granted and by these presents do grant a full, free, and absolute pardon unto Hillary Rodman Milhous Clinton for all offenses against the United States which she, Hillary Clinton, has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period of her tenure as Secretary of State.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this fifteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord two thousand seventeen.
Hillary Clinton’s Response
I have been informed that President Trump has granted me a full and absolute pardon for any charges which might be brought against me for actions taken during the time I was president of the Secretary of State.
In accepting this pardon, I hope that his compassionate act will contribute to lifting the burden of ServerGate from our country.
Here in Chappaqua New York, my perspective on ServerGate is quite different than it was while I was embattled in the midst of the controversy, and while I was still subject to the unrelenting daily demands of the Secretary of State and as a Presidential candidate.
Looking back on what is still in my mind a complex and confusing maze of events, decisions, pressures and personalities, one thing I can see clearly now is that I was wrong in not acting more secretively and less forthrightly in dealing with ServerGate, particularly when it reached the stage of the FBI “security check” proceedings and grew from a political scandal into a national security debacle.
No words can describe the depths of my regret and pain at the anguish my mistakes over ServerGate have caused the nation — a nation I so deeply love and an institution I sort of respect.
I know many fair-minded people believe that my motivations and action in the ServerGate affair were intentionally self-serving and illegal - and they are right. I now understand how my own mistakes and misjudgments have contributed to that belief and seemed to support it. This burden is the heaviest one of all to bear, but screw you, I’ll get over it, you should, too.
That the way I tried to deal with ServerGate was the wrong way is a burden I shall bear for every day of the life that is left to me.
Now, Bill, Chelsea and I need to get back to the important work of managing the family’s fund, which some claim is a simply a cover for an international RICO organization. /sarc /parody