“If you look at all the pardons the president has issued since he’s been president, the vast majority of them have gone to political allies, people who he is personally close to. And not to people who would have gone through a normal process or people who you could make a case where the criminal justice system has worked against them. Kate, I think one of the important things about what we’re seeing here is this is clearly also a president who knows his pardon power is running out. He only has a few more days to use it, so he’s using it in the most provocative way possible, which tells you everything you need to know about whether he truly believes that he will be president come January 21st, 2021, which we know he will not be.”
