Self pardon Questions again. IF Rump self pardons, in last hours of his presidency

[MineralMan]

35. No Pressure Needed.

Mike Pence has been a reliable toady from the beginning. He would never have been VP without Trump. If Trump resigns, he will be the 46th US President and be entered into the history books as such. He could never be elected as President, so that's his one chance for that title.

I doubt that Pence needs a pardon, really. He has almost no authority, and so has not done anything that would get him prosecuted, really. So, his pardon of Trump is in the bag already. It may even have been written already, as has Trump's most likely.

For me, the question is only when this will happen. I suspect it will happen a week or so before Biden's inauguration. That would give Trump time to get out and moved back to Merde-a-Gonzo, where he can safely hide until he figures out how to deal with his state charged or to move out of the USA.

The Founders? No, I'm sure they never considered such a thing. They believed that US Presidents would be pretty much honorable men, and that the threat of impeachment and removal would be enough to keep them so. They were wrong. They would not recognize the US Government as it has come to be, I think.