Pardon My POTUS

45* continues to amp up the bullshit, which may or may not be bullshit. That's what keeps him going - we can't take him at his word, and we can't just dismiss it. 

We can't make a positive call on whether or not he's going to follow thru - on anything.

That's his game. He says something wild that gets as many people as possible as riled up as possible. Then he looks for an opportunity that either comes as a result of the chaos, or he uses it to cover some shit he already has in the works.

"We'll see".  Maybe this. Maybe that. We don't know. Maybe something else.

WaPo:

President Trump on Monday asserted an “absolute right” to pardon himself of any federal crimes but said he has no reason to do so because he has not engaged in any wrongdoing.

“As has been stated by numerous legal scholars, I have the absolute right to PARDON myself, but why would I do that when I have done nothing wrong?” Trump wrote on Twitter.

- and -

Trump’s assessment of his pardon powers echoed that of his attorney, Rudolph W. Giuliani, who offered an expansive view of the president’s executive powers during interviews Sunday, arguing that Trump probably has the ability to pardon himself.

“He probably does,” Giuliani said Sunday, when asked on ABC News’s “This Week” whether Trump has the ability to pardon himself. “He has no intention of pardoning himself, but he probably — not to say he can’t.”

My default position on this pardon thing - as with everything else that clown phonies up is this:

• It's always at least 2/3 bluff and bluster

- but -

• He's been seeding the ground with all the shit about how everybody's always "treated so unfairly".

So we're right back to Wait-n-See.

The sooner he's gone, the better off we're likely to be.