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StealThisSheen posted...

Also, this. The way it's being reported doesn't suggest they initially got the info from the aides. It sounds like they got the info, then reached out to the aides for comment.

re-read it.

Trump has asked his advisers about his power to pardon aides, family members and even himself in connection with the probe, according to one of those people. A second person said Trump’s lawyers have been discussing the president’s pardoning powers among themselves.

Trump’s legal team declined to comment on the issue. But one adviser said the president has simply expressed a curiosity in understanding the reach of his pardoning authority, as well as the limits of Mueller’s investigation.
“This is not in the context of, ‘I can’t wait to pardon myself,’ ” a close adviser said.

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Currently, the discussions of pardoning authority by Trump’s legal team are purely theoretical, according to two people familiar with the ongoing conversations.


way it's written it's really just the two advisers. the same two in the last one are the same two in the first bits, otherwise there'd be more said. they're the leakers and the ones privately saying what's going on. i'd imagine that them saying hey that's just a claim not grounded in anything is a good way to take it, yes. so of course when you're told "guys, it's purely theoretical," aka, that there's nothing there, what you do is double down on a base containing literally nothing. that makes sense.
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