Legal thinking these days is that self-pardons are meaningless, but the fact remains that the party will march so much in lockstep that there are no consequences anyway.
> Nixon had considered pardoning himself while in office[0], and sought a legal opinion considering the constitutionality of doing so (his lawyers believed that it was constitutional). However, three days before his resignation, the Justice Department issued its own opinion to the contrary: “Under the fundamental rule that no one may be a judge in his own case, the President cannot pardon himself.”[1]
[0] Pardon Me?: The Constitutional Case against Presidential Self-Pardons
> On Monday, June 4, 2018, President Donald Trump said on Twitter that, “As has been stated by numerous legal scholars, I have the absolute right to PARDON myself, but why would I do that when I have done nothing wrong?”[2] His comments echoed those made by Rudy Giuliani, his attorney, on Sunday.
> Here is a brief explanation of the President’s clemency powers, some past cases, and a theoretical look at a Nixon-era question: Can a President pardon himself or herself?
