There are all kinds of questions about whether a sitting president can be indicted, but now there are also questions about whether Donald Trump could pardon himself should he face criminal prosecution. On ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos,” Giuliani said according to the constitution he believes Trump could issue his own pardon.
JUST IN: Does Pres. Trump have the power to pardon himself?
"He's not, but he probably does," Rudy Giuliani tells @GStephanopoulos. "He has no intention of pardoning himself, but that doesn't say he can't." https://t.co/Dx6UsiNNiK pic.twitter.com/ULM1x7fSac
— ABC News (@ABC) June 3, 2018
Legal analysts and even some fellow Republicans have some pretty strong opinions against this.
Chris Christie says "there's no way" Pres. Trump would pardon himself.
"If the president were to pardon himself, he'll get impeached." https://t.co/EbkCoFCwjd #ThisWeek pic.twitter.com/kKogBZg3jY
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) June 3, 2018
.@GOPLeader on whether President Trump has the power to pardon himself: "I don't think a President should pardon themselves." #CNNSOTU
— State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) June 3, 2018
On #CNNSOTU with @DanaBashCNN @PreetBharara says that “if the President decided that he was going to pardon himself, I think that’s almost self-executing impeachment”https://t.co/IUhf9EVcY0
— State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) June 3, 2018
Trump’s team not only argues that he can pardon himself but also argues that he has unlimited power to investigate his enemies and end investigations into his friends. If this sounds like tyranny to you, that’s because it is. https://t.co/1dWv8OG04X
— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) June 3, 2018