Grassley: Trump should get new lawyer if told he can pardon himself

Source: The Hill | June 4, 2018 | Jordain Carney

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said on Monday that President Trump should get a new lawyer if he’s been told that he can pardon himself.

“If I were president of the United States and I had a lawyer that told me I could pardon myself, I think I would hire a new lawyer,” Grassley, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, told CNN when asked if Trump had the ability to pardon himself. 

Trump, during an early morning tweet, poured fuel on the debate over whether he can use his presidential powers to protect himself if Mueller accuses him of wrongdoing in the probe into Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election.

“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?” the president wrote in the tweet.

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