{"id":1148,"date":"2020-12-05T20:50:35","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T20:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=133244"},"modified":"2020-12-05T20:50:35","modified_gmt":"2020-12-05T20:50:35","slug":"a-self-pardon-would-be-a-fitting-tribute-to-trumps-raging-narcissism-and-shows-need-for-clemency-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/12\/05\/a-self-pardon-would-be-a-fitting-tribute-to-trumps-raging-narcissism-and-shows-need-for-clemency-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"A Self-Pardon Would Be a Fitting Tribute to Trump&#8217;s Raging Narcissism\u2014And Shows Need For Clemency Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field field--name-field-hp-author field--type-text field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">Will Bunch<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field-wrapper content-container clearfix\" id=\"field-wrapper-content\">\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-subtitle field--type-text-long field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">\n<div>Trump has used most of his handful of pardons or commutations for cronies or political allies. Now, there is growing concern&nbsp;that Trump or any future POTUS could pardon himself.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/cd_special_coverage\/public\/views-article\/thumbs\/trump_clemency.jpg?itok=MO470N4o\" width=\"420\" height=\"220\" alt=\"&quot;It&#039;s hard to say what is more damning on the Trump pardon beat right now\u2014the already indefensible acts that kept his political allies like Michael Flynn, Roger Stone, or Joe Arpaio out of prison, the talk of pardoning his kids and his cronies, the fear that he&#039;ll test the Constitution&#039;s break-point by pardoning himself, or a report that the Justice Department is probing an alleged bribery scheme involving a presidential pardon.&quot; (Photo: Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2020\/12\/05\/a-self-pardon-would-be-a-fitting-tribute-to-trumps-raging-narcissism-and-shows-need-for-clemency-reform\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will Bunch Trump has used most of his handful of pardons or commutations for cronies or political allies. Now, there is growing concern\u00a0that Trump or any future POTUS\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1149,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions\/1149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}