“If you were worried — or if some of the Democrats were worried — about President Trump basically pardoning everyone involved in this matter, that’s going to be a much more difficult legal road to do going forward,” Stephen Farnsworth, a political science professor with the University of Mary Washington, told CTV News Channel.
Farnsworth said a presidential self-pardon or a pardon of others that has the effect of of obstructing investigations into the assault on the Capitol would expose Trump to serious legal problems after January 20.
