Former President Donald Trump ramped up his threats to prosecute President Joe Biden if he wins another term in the White House.An appeals court rejected Trump’s claims of immunity in the federal election subversion case in the District of Columbia, although he intends to press the same argument in …
He’s asking Biden to pardon him… “or else…”
That sounds like an admission of guilt to me.
Pardons by law are an admission of guilt since like 1925.
Like it would matter to him and his base.
GETTING a Pardon is an admission of guilt, but not only would said pardon absolve the guilty of any punishment for the crime, asking for a pardon is not an admission of guilt.
Small clarification.
Accepting the pardon is accepting the guilt for the crime for which you were pardoned.
You could always choose not to accept the pardon and fight the charges in court.
I don’t see how asking for permission to admit guilt is not in itself an admition of guilt, unless it were stated as a hypothetical “if I were offered a pardon, then I might accept it”