Post by @MicroWave@lemmy.world

2026-11-02 15:59 UTC

Trump floats pardons to ‘protect’ Elon Musk and staffers from Democrat investigations Trump said he would consider pre-emptive pardons to protect Elon Musk and other close aides should Democrats take control of Congress Donald Trump said he would be willing to protect Elon Musk and his staff if Democrats take control of Congress after the midterm elections this week. In an interview for the “Pod Force One” podcast published Monday, Trump said he would move to “protect” the billionaire SpaceX and Tesla CEO if Congressional investigators targeted him. Trump also indicated that he was weighing pre-emptive pardons for his close aides and others around him should the Democrats pursue investigations, according to Axios. It is a notion that the president has floated before to keep his team from facing prosecution for actions during the first two years of his term.

Replies (7)

@Formfiller@lemmy.world 2026-11-03 03:24

Elon needs to spend the rest of his pathetic loser life in prison

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@Formfiller@lemmy.world 2026-11-03 03:24

I feel like we’re getting dangerously close to the point where we start making our own justice

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@neidu4@piefed.social 2026-11-02 16:21

“Trump floats” means nothing. Stop reporting on his idiocy as if it’s news. It’s been ten years of this doofus, and this is Lemmy, there’s nobody here left to convince that he’ll do anything but whatever he can, while his word means nothing. Report on what he does, not what he says. Let me know when he floats face down in the reflecting pool

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@itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 2026-11-03 03:45

Pardons have to be for a specific crime which they have not been convicted of.

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@frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 2026-11-02 16:23

Pardons are not protection against testifying, that's pretty much all they can do for 2 years: get their words under oath and build cases for perjury if they get pardoned. Or get evidence for state crimes and bypass the executive pardons.

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@nerdo@lemmy.zip 2026-11-03 00:03

The states can cut Musk into 50 pieces and imprison each

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@OneOfManyPerfectCats@sh.itjust.works 2026-11-04 05:11

Maybe it’s time to float rewriting the pardon powers so there’s checks and balances that can’t be abused, because you know if one did it more will do the same otherwise. Invalidate his pardon power, invalidate his pardons, crimes committed by those in office should not be pardonable, etc.

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