It is an open legal question if pardons from felonious presidents are valid.
(We really should require pardons to pass a bipartisan Senate committee where there is no odd-numbered tiebreaker vote and require one defection across the aisle to approve--or something like that)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_trial_of_Donald_Trump... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_impeachment_of_Donald_Tr...
Toward the end of his first term the question was raised whether he could pardon himself.