Conservative groups influential with the Trump administration have pressed for the preemptive acts of clemency.
There’s a world of difference between a pardon issues to prevent malicious prosecution for non-crimew and one issued to people you’ve been instructing to commit crimes



Yeah let’s turn everything into a competition over who can be more insane.
Why shouldn’t we? Your life is basically a 0 on the cosmic scale, cause chaos we’re all just monkeys wearing pants.
This exact same reasoning would lead to all murder victims just allowing themselves to be murdered.