{"id":56035,"date":"2016-11-11T13:16:37","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T17:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=56035"},"modified":"2016-11-11T13:16:37","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T17:16:37","slug":"will-obama-pardon-hillary-to-exonerate-himself-of-the-same-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=56035","title":{"rendered":"Will Obama pardon Hillary to exonerate himself of the same crimes?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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White House open to a Clinton\u00a0pardon<\/h1>\n

By Daniel Halper
\n<\/a>New York Post<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The White House isn\u2019t ruling out the possibility of Hillary Clinton receiving a last-minute pardon from President Obama \u2014 even though she hasn\u2019t been charged with a crime.<\/p>\n

Asked at Wednesday\u2019s press briefing whether Obama had considered utilizing his unique executive power, press secretary Josh Earnest was cryptic.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe president has offered clemency to a substantial number of Americans who were previously serving time in federal prisons,\u201d Earnest said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd we didn\u2019t talk in advance about the president\u2019s plans to offer clemency to any of those individuals and that\u2019s because we don\u2019t talk about the president\u2019s thinking, particularly with respect to any specific cases that may apply to pardons or commutations,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Clinton has been embroiled in a lengthy FBI investigation<\/a> into her private email server.<\/p>\n

There are also reports that the feds are investigating the Clinton Foundation.<\/p>\n

No charges have been filed against Clinton.<\/p>\n

But when President Gerald Ford pardoned his predecessor, Richard Nixon, in 1974, it was for any crimes Nixon might have committed against the US while he was president.<\/p>\n

Ford justified his decision by claiming that a long, drawn-out trial would only have further polarized the nation.<\/p>\n

During the presidential campaign, President-elect Donald Trump said he\u2019d appoint a \u201cspecial prosecutor\u201d to handle the matter<\/a> \u2014 and campaign manager Kellyanne Conway suggested Wednesday the matter was still on the table.<\/p>\n

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