"If the government can prove this aspect of the case, it will be exceptionally difficult for the former president to mount a defense," Paul Collins said.
  • Mossy Feathers (They/Them)@pawb.socialEnglish
    23·
    11 months ago

    I’m worried that this is getting dragged out so long that he might actually have a chance of becoming president again. If that happens, then couldn’t he just pardon himself?

    • Bobert@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      11·
      11 months ago

      Two words. Constitutional Cris.

      That’s a joke by the way. As if those two words meant anything after his first term.

        • GladiusB@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          11 months ago

          I’m not underestimating him as much as I know there are other things in play today that were not in play then. The Republicans won’t nominate him. There would be too much fallout later. They will lose all footing in the future if they did that. And there has not been any president that won, lost, then won again.

          • Rolando@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            11 months ago

            there has not been any president that won, lost, then won again.

            Sample size is too small to make any generalizations about this.