Episode 326- Pardon Me

Community Solutions Podcast

www.commsolutionsmn.com- The pardon is one of the most sweeping and king-like powers that our presidents posess. He just pardoned his son, Hunter, for not just crimes that he's been convicted of, but any crimes that they discover in the future over an eleven-year time period. Is that even legal? Unfortunately, it looks that way.

The evidence is there from the laptop and corroborrating evidence that Hunter's influence peddling with Ukraine and China are even bigger potential charges than tax evasion and lying on a background check. All of that goes away with the waive of a hand.

This is a constitutional power that the president has, and there are no checks on it. Alexander Hamilton wrote about it in Federalist Paper #74, reaffirming this power. Should there be checks on it? Rumors are floating that pardons are coming for the President's brother, Jim, Anthony Fauci, Liz Cheney, Adam Schiff, and others... before there are even any charges, let alone a conviction. This doesn't seem like it should stand, but it will.