President Donald Trump asserted that he has the “absolute right” to pardon himself. However, he made it clear that he will not do that because he has “done nothing wrong.”
Trump made the statement in a tweet on Monday morning after the New York Times published a confidential letter over the weekend.
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? In the meantime, the never ending Witch Hunt, led by 13 very Angry and Conflicted Democrats (& others) continues into the mid-terms!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 4, 2018
In the letter, Trump’s legal team argued to Special Counsel Robert Mueller that the Constitution provided the President with a broad authority. Therefore, he cannot obstruct any aspect of the investigation into Russia’s alleged meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
According to Trump’s lawyers, the Constitution empowers the President to “if he wished, terminate the inquiry, or even exercise his power to pardon.”
