No sooner did FBI Director James Comey take a powder on the Hillary Clinton scandal than the calls started coming for the appointment of a special counsel. If Comey’s idea was to quell the controversy, it looks like he failed.
So how’s the idea of a presidential pardon looking now?
I made that suggestion a year ago in The Post, and to me it grows more logical by the hour. Obama, I noted, wouldn’t need his infamous phone to do it. He could pardon Hillary Clinton with the stroke of a pen.
He could pardon Clinton of the crimes the Republicans say she committed. He could pardon her of the crimes that even Comey says she committed but that “no reasonable prosecutor” would pursue.
Even a pardon might not end the controversy. But it would end Clinton’s legal jeopardy (which will still be there if a Republican administration comes into power or a special counsel is appointed).
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On the contrary it's totally illogical.Nothing aligns with that theory.
ReplyDeleteYou can't pardon someone who hasn't been convicted of a crime. That would be a crime in itself, not allowing the judicial branch to do its mandated job. Were he to try, it would confirm her guilt without an actual hearing.
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