“…he shall have Power to grant…Pardons for Offences against the United States…”

Article II, section 2, subsection 1 of the Constitution clearly states the President has the power to pardon anyone (which some argue includes himself) if he so desires.

That said, we’re at a loss how Mueller indicting former Trump aides for wrongdoing long before they ever became Trump aides can possibly help in the special counsel probe.

General consensus is that the indictments are meant as a way of coercing the aides. It puts pressure on them to be more cooperative with the Mueller team witch-hunt, and that the President would be too fearful of negative optics to exercise pardon options.

But, as many seem slow to learn, President Trump isn’t your typical politician, and with his popularity rising despite the best effort of FakeNews, optics are an illusory thing.

As noted in an earlier BCP post, the American public has little patience for a one-sided ham-handed version of a glaring political ploy this special counsel probe has become, with its GOP-only tunnel vision…while ignoring very real Democrat criminality.

So, that said, President Trump can make a very real case for ending the charade, and while doing so, pardoning Flynn and other aides being hammered with legal extortion.

We never cease to be amazed how Hillary Clinton can walk among free society, while others are bludgeoned with the selective hammer of partisan grand-jury indictments, no matter how lesser or insignificant the charges used against them may be.