A president has the absolute right to use the pardon power and exercising that power does not constitute corruption.

“surely you would agree there's nothing corrupt about a president using the pardon power which he has the absolute right to do.”

The act of pardoning individuals who committed corruption makes a president pro-corruption.

“If you pardon people who do corruption, then you're procorruption.”

A president cannot pardon themselves because constitutional law contains a background principle that no one should be a judge in their own case.

“I don't know if a court would even decide I mean there's this basic principle in the law that no one should be a judge in his or her own case and that's kind of the basis of the conclusion”

A president cannot pardon themselves because constitutional law contains a background principle that no one should be a judge in their own case.

“I don't know I don't know if a court would even decide I mean there's this basic principle in the law that no one should be a judge in his or her own case and that's kind of the basis of the conclusion and the oh I'll say opinion that it can't be that the constitution allows for self-pardons”

A president has the absolute legal authority to issue pardons, even those that are morally questionable or corrupt.

“the president does have the absolute power to pardon it's like a get out of jail free card even if it's a terrible pardon even if it's a corrupt pardon even if it sucks even if it's a country even if you fill in the blank the president's pardon is a get out of jail free card”