Donald Trump’s valet Walt Nauta was told that if he was charged with lying to the FBI, the former president would pardon him when he won a second term in 2024, according to notes from an interview with a witness in the federal classified documents investigation.

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    2 months ago

    Hey weird Michael Flynn lied to the FBI about a Trump legal matter, got caught, but got pardoned.

    And so did George Papadapoulos.

    And so did Alex van Der Zwaan.

    And so did Roger Stone.

    And so did Paul Manafort.

    Weird coincidence.

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      Having watched all of that, I’ve reached the conclusion that we really ought to have a constitutional amendment that changes the nature of presidential pardons, moving them to an appointed commission and out of the president’s own hands.

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        Or at least a combination. You can leave the power with the president and just add oversight approval.

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          Ir even explicitly forbid pardoning crimes which the court declares the president directly benefitted from, and/or people they had been directly involved with prior to/during the crime