Conservative platforms popular among Trump's fiercest supporters, like Parler and Gab, known for its far-right and neo-Nazi user base, have drawn a growing number of users
Posted on January 10, 2021.
The president-elect’s son is in the spotlight due to his business dealings and an ongoing investigation by the U.S. attorney’s office in Delaware into his taxes
Family is an institution that accompanies a person throughout their lifetime. For the next president of the United States, his family will suddenly have front row seats when Joe Biden is sworn in on Jan. 20. Even before the start of Biden’s term, the spotlight of scrutiny has been on his son, Hunter, who is being investigated for his business dealings and who has already been in Republican crosshairs for his business relations in Ukraine.
In 2009, I was invited to participate in a conference at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill on the changes between newspapers and online media outlets. During the conference, we were given accounts on a new media application called Twitter.
Twitter called the application a way to communicate between people in short messages, even on laptops, in places like conferences. It crashed a few times during our attempts to use it and we went back to simply talking to each other to communicate.
But my sign-on remained and when Twitter began to catch on, I began to use it as a way to keep pass on links to news stories and other interesting items I felt others might like to read.
Many of these would encompass any crimes that may have been committed prior to the pardon being issued, according to Bloomberg. The pardons could be announced Jan. 19 the day before he leaves office.
Legal expert and University of Missouri professor Frank O. Bowman told the TEGNA VERIFY team last month that a president cannot pardon someone for crimes that might be committed after the pardon is made.
A self-pardon opens a legal conundrum that s never been explored. If that pardon survived a challenge in the courts, then future presidents could commit federal crimes and simply pardon themselves before leaving office.