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Trump considers pardoning his family to protect them

2020-12-03T14:03:23.971Z


The outgoing president would like by this unprecedented procedure to put his children out of reach of federal justice.


President Donald Trump has reportedly discussed with his advisers the possibility of granting a presidential pardon to three of his children, Ivanka, Eric and Donald Junior, as well as his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani.

While it is traditional for an outgoing US president to make use of his privilege in the final weeks of his term, it is more unusual for his own family.

According to the ABC channel, then the

New York Times

, these discussions would have included other potential candidates, but the president's children would have been mentioned out of fear that they would face legal action once he left the office. power.

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"The outgoing president should pardon himself and his entire family,"

Fox News host Sean Hannity, one of Trump's main media supporters

, said on

Monday,

because the Democrats want to launch a hunt for witches against him in perpetuity, they are so full of rage and madness towards him. "

The president would also have asked his collaborators if he had the right to pardon himself at the same time as the members of his family, and if these pardons could be it as a preventive measure, and include facts of which people could. be charged in the future.

The Democrats want to start a witch hunt in perpetuity against Trump, they are so full of rage and madness towards him.

Sean Hannity, Fox News host and Trump media supporter

Donald Junior was implicated during the investigation of Special Advisor Robert Mueller for his contacts with Russian nationals who offered compromising information about Hillary Clinton during the 2016 campaign, but he was never charged.

Jared Kushner, meanwhile, allegedly gave false information to federal authorities about his contacts with foreign nationals, during the preliminary investigation for the issuance of his security clearance at the White House.

Ivanka and Eric Trump are not being prosecuted, but, according to the

New York Times

, an investigation by the Manhattan prosecutor into the Trump organization is looking into tax deductions for millions of dollars in costs of consultation, part of which may have been paid to Ivanka Trump.

Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who is relaying the president's electoral fraud charges and seeking to have the results quashed in several states, is the subject of an investigation by federal prosecutors in New York for his activities in Ukraine in 2019. Giuliani is accused of having plotted in 2019 the recall of the former American ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, and of having relayed the pressures of Trump on the Ukrainian authorities, which had led to the procedure of impeachment against the president.

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Last week, Trump exercised his presidential privilege the day before Thanksgiving Day by pardoning his former national security adviser, Mike Flynn.

Accused of lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russia, Flynn had pleaded guilty before seeking to retract in court.

Details of the decision were made public on Monday.

The pardon includes not only the facts of which the former general is accused but also, in a preventive way,

"all possible offenses arising from facts and circumstances known, identified or connected in any way"

to the Mueller investigation.

The presidential pardon, however, only covers federal crimes, not those committed at the state level.

Among the other names mentioned who could benefit from this grace would also include that of Joe Exotic, former zookeeper who became a television celebrity last spring in the documentary series

Tiger King

.

Source: lefigaro

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