• GoldenQuetzal@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I’m hoping that Musk makes a deal with someone to expose election interference as a pardon or prevention from deportation

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        For federal crimes. Governors can pardon people for state charges. Elections are run by the individual state governments, so interference is generally a state-level crime. This is why Trump hasn’t pardoned himself for his own interference convictions, because the violations were of state law in New York.

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        Well if Musk comes out and admits that he helped rig the election them technically the president isn’t the president eh? Plus informants make deals all of the time, I don’t see how this is different