Trump Thread

[Montmorency]

Won't Trump just pardon Manafort (and Cohen) and won't that take away all the "pressure to cooperate with Robert Müller"?

Not really.

1. Accepting a pardon is tantamount to admission of guilt, and the pardoned individual may thereupon be subpoenaed to provide testimony under oath, where refusal would subject them to further criminal liability unless they can make a good case that the testimony would put the pardonee at risk of self-incrimination of crimes beyond those pardoned (5th Amendment).

2. It is widely assumed that some possible charges are being held back in these cases in order to shield prosecutors' hands and, in the event of a federal pardon, permit states to prosecute equivalent charges where applicable without fear of running afoul of the double jeopardy proscription.

Umlaut