It came out over the weekend that, back in January, Trump’s lawyers contacted Mueller’s office to basically say, “Yeah, the president can’t be indicted for anything and he can’t obstruct justice because he is the head of the justice services in the government.”
L’etat c’est moi!
Over the weekend, Trump’s current head lawyer, Rudy Giuliani sort of doubled down on that, saying that Trump could have shot James Comey instead of firing him, and he couldn’t be criminally touched for the action except, perhaps, by impeachment.
And then this morning the Tweeter-in-Chief informed us: “As has been stated by numerous legal scholars, I have the absolute right to PARDON myself, but why would I do that when I have done nothing wrong?”
Dear Donald: When you keep saying “I could pardon myself, but I haven’t done anything wrong,” the first half of the sentence really stands out more than the second half. There’s no need to even talk about pardoning yourself if there’s nothing to be be indicted or convicted for. Except, of course, to try to scare off people who might think of trying ti indict or convict you.
Trump claims Mueller probe is unconstitutional and insists he can pardon himself – POLITICO
I’m so sick of him and this circus. I really really really want him to go down.
As other people, notably +Andreas Schou, have pointed out, pardoning yourself from a charge of conspiracy is itself an act of conspiracy, so a finite number of pardons is not going to get him out of trouble.
With Trump's reputation for consistency, he would pardon himself, but then refuse to accept the pardon.
"There are substantial differences between legislative immunity and a pardon; the latter carries an imputation of guilt and acceptance of a confession of it, while the former is noncommittal, and tantamount to silence of the witness."
At the time of the Nixon pardon, Gerald Ford and his staff argued that the very acceptance of the pardon by Nixon would carry that imputation of guilt. Hence the extensive negotiations between the Ford and Nixon teams in the days leading up to the pardon.
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/236/79/case.html
So that's why he's orange: it's the standard Sun King colour.