{"id":794,"date":"2020-02-20T10:47:07","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T15:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/takomatorch.com\/?p=794"},"modified":"2020-02-20T10:47:14","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T15:47:14","slug":"president-trump-pardons-future-former-president-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/2020\/02\/20\/president-trump-pardons-future-former-president-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"President Trump Pardons Future Former President Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"621\" height=\"398\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/takomatorch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/pardonme.jpg?resize=621%2C398&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-795\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/takomatorch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/pardonme.jpg?w=621&amp;ssl=1 621w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/takomatorch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/pardonme.jpg?resize=300%2C192&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 621px) 100vw, 621px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\nWASHINGTON, DC &#8211; Fresh off a streak of pardoning convicts like Rob Blagojevich, Bernie Kerik, and Edward Debartolo Jr., President Donald Trump decided today to pre-pardon himself for all criminal convictions not only from his past, but also from his future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;First of all, there is zero proof that I&#8217;ve committed a crime, okay?&#8221; said Trump at a White House briefing. &#8220;Second, even if there is proof, which I&#8217;m not saying there is, but if I ever do commit a crime, which I might consider &#8211; nobody can predict the future &#8211; I am officially pardoning myself. And everyone knows it would be the best crime ever. It really would.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>U.S. Attorney General William Barr confirmed that the President has the right to pardon whomever he wants without having to explain himself to anyone, including the U.S. Attorney General. &#8220;I guess it really doesn&#8217;t matter what I think anymore,&#8221; stated the former <a href=\"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/2019\/06\/27\/baby-sinclair-brings-prehistoric-principles-to-department-of-justice\/\">child actor<\/a> from the hit TV series &#8220;Dinosaurs&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After pardoning his future self, Trump then went on to pre-pardon several other future criminals, including Senior Advisor Stephen Miller&#8217;s unborn child, villain Simon Phoenix from the movie &#8220;Demolition Man&#8221;, and the 2021-24 World Series Champion Houston Astros. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, DC &#8211; Fresh off a streak of pardoning convicts like Rob Blagojevich, Bernie Kerik, and Edward Debartolo Jr., President Donald Trump decided today to pre-pardon himself for all criminal convictions not only from his past, but also from his future. &#8220;First of all, there is zero proof that I&#8217;ve committed a crime, okay?&#8221; said&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":795,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-politics","wpcat-10-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/takomatorch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/pardonme.jpg?fit=621%2C398&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paPZSG-cO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":796,"href":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions\/796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}