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The unfortunate truth: prepare for Trump to pardon a lot of these people.

Trump pardons his inner circle, not the foot soldiers who can't give him anything except for their vote.

He's pardoned a lot of low-level people in an effort incite people. You can look at all of the war criminals as an example.

I bet he'd pardon all of these people just to hear people bitch about it.

You can't pardon someone that hasn't been convicted. Any guilty verdict happening on January 20th or later is out of bounds.

Not true. Carter gave a blanket pardon to all Vietnam draft dodgers, many of whom fled the country before being convicted.

We already seen hundreds of people escaped any consequences for hundreds of similar offences happened earlier this year.

But Trump won't pardon them. It won't be a president to the time of conviction.

But if you are so sure Trump is going to pardon them, let's make a bet?

You don’t have to be convicted of a crime to be pardoned. I’m not even sure you have to be formally charged.

Nixon was pardoned by Ford without being charged. But it was more of a symbolic gesture.

I don’t believe that we have any court cases that speak to that one way or another. It’s only theory right now.

OK, let's bet money on it.

You can only pardon people by name. There will be many more arrests to come after Trump leaves office when the FBI have gone through all the social media posts.

That is 100% not true. In 1868 President Andrew Johnson pardoned all Confederate soldiers. He definitely didn't do it by name.

Didn't Carter blanket-pardon Vietnam deserters without naming them?

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