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Subject Obama ethics chief: 'No, Trump can't pardon himself'

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Former Obama administration ethics lawyer Norman Eisen says that President Trump cannot pardon himself.

Eisen, along with Harvard Law professor Laurence Tribe and Richard Painter who was chief White House ethics lawyer for George W. Bush, wrote in an op-ed that Trump cannot pardon himself citing the "fundamental rule that no one may be a judge in his own case."

"But there is one thing we know that Trump cannot do - without being a first in all of human history. He cannot pardon himself," they said.
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