US Election Week 2020

[Grey Fox]

The first drop rule. Who was your first?

I can't remember the first president I voted for.

Ford, eh.

[Admiral Yi]

Ford, eh.

I was 13.

[DGuller]

Ford, eh.

I was 13.

And they say voter fraud never happens.

[Barrister]

Ford, eh.

I was 13.

You're older than I thought!

So doing the math, you could have first voted for Reagan or Mondale...

[Admiral Yi]

You're older than I thought!

So doing the math, you could have first voted for Reagan or Mondale...

I'm half Asian, so people always think I'm younger than I am. 

I don't think I voted in the Reagan years.

The first distinct voting memory I have is writing in McCain during Bush v Gore.

[DGuller]

Oh, I thought Yi voted when he was 13, not that he was 13 in 1976. 

[Zanza]

William Barr says there is no evidence of widespread fraud in presidential election

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/01/politics/william-barr-election-2020/index.html

Ooops. I guess the United States will soon have a new Acting Attorney General. That opens a window of opportunity for all the republicans who so far were afraid of offending Trump.

[Barrister]

William Barr says there is no evidence of widespread fraud in presidential election

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/01/politics/william-barr-election-2020/index.html

Ooops. I guess the United States will soon have a new Acting Attorney General. That opens a window of opportunity for all the republicans who so far were afraid of offending Trump.

Apparently Barr then was called in to a meeting with Trump that hadn't been on his schedule today.

[11B4V]

William Barr says there is no evidence of widespread fraud in presidential election

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/01/politics/william-barr-election-2020/index.html

Ooops. I guess the United States will soon have a new Acting Attorney General. That opens a window of opportunity for all the republicans who so far were afraid of offending Trump.

Apparently Barr then was called in to a meeting with Trump that hadn't been on his schedule today.

Well....

[Razgovory]

The Lt Gov of Georgia stated that the election was free of fraud and the President is misinformed.  Republicans have, for the most part, been silent when Trump slandered people.  Will most of them keep silent now that Trump is targeting them?

[Razgovory]

Now Rudy is asking for a pardon.  https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/01/politics/trump-rudy-giuliani-pardons/index.html

(CNN)President Donald Trump's associates are making appeals to him in the hopes of obtaining pardons before he leaves office, a source familiar with the matter told CNN on Tuesday.

The source said the list of associates broaching the subject of preemptive pardons that would seek to shield those individuals from prosecution includes Rudy Giuliani, who has been leading the President's longshot legal battles to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in his role as Trump's personal attorney.
The New York Times first reported that Giuliani is seeking a preemptive pardon.
Giuliani has denied discussing a preemptive pardon with the President, telling CNN that the "(New York) Times is completely wrong." He further denied he has talked to anyone at the White House about a pardon for himself.

It's not clear what potential criminal exposure Giuliani or other associates are attempting to preempt. But the source familiar with the discussions went on to cite what friends and allies of the President see as hostility from the incoming Biden administration toward Trump associates.
"Don't trust the Dems," the source said, describing the pardons being sought as "blanket" protection from future prosecution.

he appeals come on the heels of Trump's decision to pardon his former national security adviser, Michael Flynn.
Last week, the President granted Flynn a full pardon, absolving him of charges related to lying to federal agents over his contact with the Russian ambassador to the United States.
Flynn's pardon was Trump's second act of clemency related to prosecutions of advisers of the President. Earlier this summer, Trump commuted the sentence of Roger Stone.

[viper37]

Is there such a thing as a preemptive presidential pardon in the USA? 
I was under the impression a presidential pardon occurred after if you were previously found guilty of a crime?

[Eddie Teach]

I think they mean a blanket pardon. Trump can't pardon them for acts that haven't happened yet.

[viper37]

I think they mean a blanket pardon. Trump can't pardon them for acts that haven't happened yet.

In any case, my question stands: can the President pardon an individual who has not been found guilty, nor even accused so far?

[The Brain]

I think they mean a blanket pardon. Trump can't pardon them for acts that haven't happened yet.

In any case, my question stands: can the President pardon an individual who has not been found guilty, nor even accused so far?

Yes. Nixon for instance was pardoned for any and all federal offenses.