This is not a drill
To be exact…Trump’s announcing this is surely an emergency. He’s saying he’s not constrained by any law, because he has an absolute right to pardon himself.
We can’t be having a president, with the powers a president has, who thinks and says he is bound by no law.
He could do anything. He’s a lunatic, and a rage-prone vindictive impulsive lunatic at that. He’s all of that and he claims the law cannot touch him.
Sure looks like an emergency to me.
Time for duck and cover?
I know people hate to be told not to feed the trolls, but Trump is a giant troll who likes throwing things out there and watching people get upset.
If he pardons himself, that’s a crisis. Him just saying it is probably just trolling.
For one example of how not out-of-control he is, he’d love to fire Sessions, but he knows his hands are tied.
For another, everyone’s upset the Republicans haven’t protected Mueller from being fired…but they’ve been upset for months, and Mueller hadn’t been fired. I suspect for political reasons the Congressional Republicans do not want to pass legislation against a president from their party but have communicated to Trump that they will stop protecting him if he dares do that.
Trump’s not stable and could decide not to listen to everyone currently shackling him, and he could then fire Sessions, fire Mueller, and preemptively pardon himself. Then we’d have an emergency. But at least for now it’s just the dotard blustering on Twitter and elsewhere.
So don’t put the fire out until it’s burned the house down and killed everyone in it. Great advice.