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The Dershow

Can Trump Pardon Himself and His Family?

The Dershow

Alan Dershowitz | Kast Media

News, Politics

4.41.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Self-serving pardons, Laurence Tribe's misreads the constitution and David Boies takes PPE from the American people.

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0:00.0

Should the president pardon himself and members of his family or would that be self-serving and

0:05.8

self-dealing and speaking of self-serving, did you know that David Boys and his mega law firm

0:12.0

got up to $10 million in welfare payments for COVID, money that

0:18.0

should have gone to mom-pop shops to stay in business, Instead, it went to David Boys,

0:25.2

David Boys who owns a yacht and his firm.

0:28.4

David Boys who owns a winery.

0:32.2

Could have sold the yacht, could have sold a winery and more money would have gone to poor people.

0:37.0

So today on the DUR show we talk about principles and self-serving actions.

0:43.0

Pardons are in the news once again,

0:47.0

according to reports in the New York Times and other media, Rudy Giuliani... According to

0:53.7

reports in the New York Times and other media,

0:53.6

Rudy Giuliani may have asked the president to pardon him,

0:58.1

even though he hasn't been indicted or under investigation

1:01.8

for anything, a kind of preemptive pardon.

1:05.0

I think Giuliani has denied it, and I don't know whether it's true,

1:10.0

but also on other media there are reports that the president is considering pardoning members

1:16.2

of his family and others preemptively.

1:19.9

Now let me first lay out the law and the history of such pardons and then we can get to the

1:29.0

policies.

1:30.0

I don't know whether or not the president is even considering these preemptive

1:35.6

pardons. There are two kind of preemptive pardons. One perfectly legal, the

1:39.2

other probably not legal. The perfectly legal one is the one that says you're

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