After leaving the country broken, President Donald Trump tries to evade his responsibility in justice. The country is in its darkest hours.
With every hour that passes, more and more revealing details about the capture of the US Capitol in the US capital allow us to assimilate the magnitude of the crisis. On Friday, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, called the Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, to ask for an assurance that President Donald Trump has no access to nuclear weapons given his mental instability.
It was heard in the corridors of the Capitol on Wednesday that the intentions of some of the subversives to find Vice President Mike Pence were to be executed by hanging outside the compound for “ treason. ” In pictures we could see that in fact a gallows and a cross had been installed. On internet forums, the Trumpists are not only asking the head of Pence, but now that of Trump himself.
The president’s fans feel betrayed by him after he finally acknowledged defeat on Thursday, after two long months of baseless and hopeless legal battle. The time has come for them to accept that the president’s campaign to reverse the results was only about protecting their companies and their egos. Now the anger and frustration of this crowd is a latent threat to everyone.
All this is not an exaggeration, but to show how pronounced the collapse of what appeared to be the world’s strongest democracy is, and to show that what is happening is not a national problem, but a global problem. But while everything is in chaos, and the world is plunged into uncertainty by this and a series of other crises, Donald Trump seems to care only about one thing: him.
On Thursday night, The New York Times published an article noting that Trump was trying to forgive himself. It’s no surprise. Since stepping into the White House, the president has brought the idea to his close circle and his lawyers. Trump has sought pardon for himself even before his administration officially began. He has also looked it up for his allies. In recent weeks, we’ve seen a wave of grace for figures like Roger Stone, George Papadopoulos, Michael Flynn, among others. All involved in the scandal of the Russian plot. Trump’s goal with this grace, and with his self-pardon, is to block the roads to justice so that they don’t investigate him for the irregularities in his administration.
But Trump isn’t just considering forgiving himself these days. He also has a list of names he hopes to forgive. This includes his eldest daughter, Ivanka Trump; his son-in-law, Jared Kushner; his personal attorney, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, and Fox News anchors like Kimberly Guilfoyle, who happens to be the girlfriend of his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr. There are also others like Alberto Pirro, who did business with Trump and was convicted of tax fraud.
Celebrities like rapper Kodak Black or soccer player Lamar Jackson are also there. But these are distractions from the big shots. Kushner was in charge of Trump’s Middle East peace plan, so so many questions arise as to why the president wants him pardoned. This would forever bury many secrets about the Trump administration.
The list of scandals in the Trump administration is huge. This week, nothing more, it was discovered that he was trying to pressure the Georgia secretary of state to help him reverse his defeat there. That’s conspiracy for electoral fraud. But there was no time to respond to it. Wednesday was the attack on the Capitol and all attention was focused on this. Because of the seriousness of the episode, which left five dead, Trump is charged with conspiracy for sedition. The president urgently needs a pardon to escape the investigations, but getting it has been made more difficult after what happened in Congress.
Trump’s first option was to pardon during his tenure. Can do it? The Constitution does not clarify it, and this is because the authors of this document felt it was unnecessary. That trying to forgive oneself was an act of displacement of power and it was understood. Trump is trying to take advantage of that void. But it faces many obstacles. In 1974, following the “Watergate” scandal and Richard Nixon’s administration, the Justice Department issued a legal opinion stating that “the president cannot forgive himself” since as a fundamental rule “no one can be a judge”. in his own case ”.
As Brian Kalt, a professor at Michigan State University School of Law, explained to Bloomberg, “The main argument in favor is that the constitution does not explicitly exclude it and that the power of forgiveness is extraordinary.” On the other hand, “the idea of pardoning is by definition something that can only be done to another.” This, plus the Justice Department’s legal opinion, does not predict success for Trump. His case would go to the Supreme Court, where, although he appointed three of the four justices, he could be defeated in what would mean the most humiliating defeat of his entire government.
There is another option for Trump: resign. If he stepped down, Pence would take power and grant him a free and absolute pardon, much like former President Gerald Ford did with Nixon after his resignation. But the relationship between Pence and Trump is deteriorating. The takeover of the Capitol marked the break. According to Reuters, Pence is no longer trying to talk to Trump, although this route should not be ruled out. The United States has shown that as long as Trump is on the radar, anything can happen and that Trump is pardoned is a realistic option. If anything should become clear to us from his efforts to achieve this, it is, as Benjamin Wittes points out in The Atlantic Magazine, that the president would accept responsibility in several scandals he has been accused of.
“The Supreme Court has suggested that accepting a pardon means recognizing the crime pardoned. And while there is some debate as to the extent to which this is correct, the granting of a pardon certainly strongly implies that the president believes there is a crime that requires a pardon or that the beneficiary as the recipient of pardon emphasizes the guilt of the individual. Trump would effectively announce that he was guilty of acts that could expose him to criminal charges (and thus claim his own guilt); By then accepting forgiveness, he would, to some extent, admit his own accusation, “Wittes emphasizes. But forgiveness would feel bad alongside his opponents and now the crowd who risked their lives for him and feel betrayed. It would mean that any future president would deny any criminal investigation by using the presidential pardon as an “escape card.” This would be the worst legacy of his presidency.
What is left then?
The most recommended option, as Democrats and analysts point out, is impeachment. It is the route so that Trump does not remain with impunity. However, this also presents daunting challenges. Trump’s mass is divided between those who felt betrayed and those who remain loyal to him.
On Friday afternoon, a group of Trumpists confronted Republican Senator Lindsey Graham at the airport, accusing him of a “traitor”. Until recently, he was one of the president’s most loyal bishops. Graham said impeachment is a bad idea now, not because he wants total impunity for Trump, but because he believes the environment in the country would add fuel to the fire.
Any attempt to oust President Trump would not only fail in the Senate, but would also set a dangerous precedent for the future of the presidency. It takes both sides to heal the nation, ”Graham wrote. He is right about this, but the price is impunity. The charges may be filed in the House of Representatives next week. If this process is not speeded up, they run the risk of Trump trying to forgive himself.
Trump expected to quash the order. It worked. The entire United States runs on fragile soil, and with it the world. The clock is ticking and every hour adds more excitement and spooky detail to the final season of the Trump show.
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