Prison after handover to Biden? Trump could resort to unprecedented means in US history

With the official swearing in of Joe Biden in January, Donald Trump not only surrenders the White House, but also his immunity.

Lawsuits could follow - Trump could try to protect himself from them.

• The right to pardon is available to every US president.

• Trump could apply it to himself as the first president in US history.

• With the handover to Biden, Trump loses his immunity.

Washington DC - Traditionally

,

every US president

pardons

two turkeys before Thanksgiving

.

Trump also followed this tradition every year.

It's not always about turkeys, though;

real human lives

are often

involved as well.

Because

issuing pardons

- that is the

privilege

that every US president, including the president in Germany, is entitled to.

A distinction is made between two cases in the USA.

The

"commutation"

only reduces the sentence, while the

"pardon"

completely forgives the crime.

Donald Trump: will Rudy Giuliani follow after Roger Stone's pardon?

Trump exercised the

pardon a

number of times during his presidency.

Including in

controversial and prominent cases

.

For example, Donald Trump saved his confidante

Roger Stone

from jail a few months before this year's election.

Roger Stone had previously been sentenced

to more than three years in prison

for

false testimony and disability

in the wake of the Russia affair.

The Democrats then accused the president of

abuse of office

.

It also happens again and again that people, mostly in public life, express their own desire for a pardon.

Netflix star

Joe Exotic

, self-proclaimed "Tiger King" by trade, wrote a letter to the president asking for his 22-year prison sentence for murder to be lifted.

Trump's lawyer

Rudy Giuliani

is also said to have approached him with this concern.

Jail?

Can Trump pardon himself?

A possible question for the US Supreme Court

After Joe Exotic and Rudy Guiliani, a publicly well-known person is now planning to ask Trump for a pardon.

And that is

the incumbent US President himself.

The background: With Biden's inauguration in January

, Trump will lose his immunity

.

Can derselbigen with the loss Trump before ordinary courts

are accused

.

In New York alone, there are 30 different

proceedings waiting for Donald #Trump when

his # immunity has ended.

That

is the real reason for his

opposition to the end of office.

- Gerhard Schwarz (@ gerhardschwar11) November 10, 2020

There are enough reasons for this, Trump is

accused of

tax offenses and abuse of office

, among other things

.

Various lawsuits are therefore likely, the political scientist

Thomas Jäger also

expresses himself in the

Focus

video interview with the words: "He must have to fear that afterwards."

It would be the

first time in United States history

that a US president pardoned himself.

The question of whether this would be lawful at all has not yet been fully clarified in court.

According to Jäger, this question could end up in the

Supreme Court

, which has had

a conservative majority

since Trump's candidate

Barrett was

sworn in

.

(live)

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