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Yes, Trump Can Pardon Himself But He Should Not Do So

JonathanTurley

I maintained that perjury is a “high crime and misdemeanor” regardless of its subject. Indeed, for much of history, kings were deposed in a lethal, not a legal, sense. Conversely, I testified in the Trump impeachment that the issue was far more difficult because of the absence of such a clear criminal act as perjury.