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Trump: 'I have the absolute right to PARDON myself'
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Jun 04, 2018 09:16am |
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| Author | Kevin Breuninger |
| News Date | Monday, June 4, 2018 01:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | President Donald Trump said Monday morning that he has "the absolute right" to pardon himself — but added that he has "done nothing wrong."
The tweet followed The New York Times' publication of a confidential letter over the weekend, in which Trump's lawyers argued to special counsel Robert Mueller that the president's broad powers mean he could not have obstructed justice.
No president has ever pardoned themselves. But a Justice Department memorandum from 1974 — shortly before the resignation of President Richard Nixon — asserted that the president did not possess such a power. |
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