pardons
Where Things Stand: Who Will Get Their Christmas Pardon? 
This is your TPM afternoon briefing.
12.18.20 | 12:49 pm
Word on the street (or, rather, Axios) is that President Trump is going to issue a wave of pardons today as a grand gesture of Christmas clemency to some of his closest friends and family.
Where Things Stand: Even The Tiger King
This is your TPM afternoon briefing.
11.25.20 | 2:05 pm
President Trump has been laying the groundwork for years at this point.
Even if he had won the election, he’d probably continue floating it — letting a potential Michael Flynn pardon swing in the breeze while he waits for the right moment to let it drop. Now we’ve reached an hour so ripe with presidential turmoil that he might as well fling a distraction at his base.
