“To Jeffrey Toobin, author of The Pardon: The Politics of Presidential Mercy, pardons are ‘X-rays into the soul’ of the American president who gives them, revealing true character,” The Guardian reports.
“Pardons can show compassion and mercy in the occupant of the Oval Office. More often, they expose venality and self-preservation.”
Said Toobin: “One thing you can say about Donald Trump is that his moral compass always points in the same direction, and his motives are always the same, which are transactional and narcissistic. This is a good example, I think, of my thesis that pardons are X-rays into the president’s soul.”
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