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b_b · 1462 days ago · link · · parent · post: If I had to guess, this is House Minorty Leader Kevin McCarthy and Fox pressuring Trump(?). Dunno.
I saw a legal scholar address the question of whether a tweet could constitute a pardon. She thought that it probably could, although, obviously, it's never been tested. I was sort of hoping that would happen, but then the Twitter ban happened instead. The president can pardon groups of people. It doesn't have to be named individuals. He could literally have tweeted, "All the beautiful Patriots at the Capitol are pardoned for insurrection" and it may have been so. The other side of that coin is that accepting a pardon constitutes of guilt, so that could be used against them on other court proceedings.