Hot Take on POTUS's pardon tweet In the wake of this tweet yesterday, there has been the typical wave of derision and contempt that follows most of the President's statements from the left. The general sentiments and talking points in response to this statement vary from "you can't do that, Drumpf" to "literally Hitler." As we've seen time and again, POTUS is much more of a smooth operator than his opponents expect, and they never hesitate to put their feet in their mouths in response to his daily baiting. I choose to remain optimistic about justice being served and the rule of law being restored by the end of this first term.  What I think his suggestion of self-pardoning is intended to do, is to get as many journalists, legal experts (armchair or otherwise), to go on record with the sentiment that "no one is above the law" and that "executive authority cannot be used to excuse oneself from one's crimes". Obviously BO is no longer in office, but I expect there are going to be some very high level indictments, arrests, and God-willing, one-way Gitmo trips in the future.  With the goldfish memory of the media, they'll probably forget they ever said anything on the subject, but I expect there will be some amazing side-by-side memeing to be done with journalists defending the political class as more and more of their ranks face prison sentences after insisting on the rule of law being absolute. Could be totally off-base here, but it is fun to speculate on 4D chess board arrangements, isn't it?