“As has been stated by numerous legal scholars, I have the absolute right to PARDON myself.”
What PolitiFact found
The Constitution doesn’t explicitly bar presidents from pardoning themselves. While legal arguments can be made against it, no one really knows if a self-pardon would be upheld by the courts.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Donald Trump (president) made this claim around 4 June 2018. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 24 November 2020, 904 days later. Its rating was “No consensus, experts say”.
Donald Trump has 1,168 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 663 of them false or fake, 375 misleading or mixed and 13 true.
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