Can Trump Pardon Himself and His Family?
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Alan Dershowitz | Kast Media
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🗓️ 2 December 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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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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