Trump says he’d consider issuing pardons to administration officials before he leaves office

NBC News reports: There are no new alerts at this time President Donald Trump said in a new interview that he’s considering pre-emptively pardoning members of his administration before the end of his second term. “Yeah, sure I’d do that,” he said in an interview this week with Time magazine, which published a transcript of the conversation Thursday. Asked to further elaborate, Trump referenced how President Joe Biden pre-emptively pardoned a slew of people who worked in his administration at the end of his presidency. “It was a disappointment to a lot of Republicans,” Trump said. “Sleepy Joe gave pardons to everybody. He gave them to Fauci.

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