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Wanglicious posted...

xp1337 posted...

doesn't mean much of anything. The way I read that is the advisor simply saying the plan isn't to go, "Okay, we can do this? Sweet! brb doing it right now." It could very well still be figuring out if he can pardon himself in case he needs to later. I mean, I guess you can try to read it however you want, but saying "it's nothing" is wrong, IMO.

that's just too literal and wouldn't make much sense as a response. the phrase "can't wait to do __!" is another way of saying that you really want to do something. so it's not in the context of "I really want to do this," it's just stuff mentioned along the way.

and how do you know this?

I said it means nothing and I meant precisely that. It doesn't definitively state anything much one way or the other.

What's clear by the article is that he has asked about self-pardoning. The follow-up quote speaks to context and only speaks to the fact that context is that it's not something that they're eagerly looking to do. Which is obvious.

A self-pardon would be an absolute last resort, in part for the reason you mentioned, he knows how bad it would look in regards to whether he did anything wrong. However, I think he'd still find it preferable to an outcome where the investigation finds a ton of stuff. I think he still thinks he can get the investigation to go away somehow or failing that, to discredit it to throw doubt on anything it does find. I don't think either option is really feasible (but with this Congress you never know!) but he's looking for any other avenue out of this.

tl;dr: You're stating with a lot of certainty exactly what is intended by all these statements with no basis I can see.
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