Donald Trump has promised to pardon his White House staffers, reported the Wall Street Journal’s Josh Dawsey in an exclusive report on Friday.

Dawsey, the veteran DC reporter, cited “people who have heard his comments” in the bombshell report revealing that Trump is asking his staff to operate with a sense of impunity.

“I’ll pardon everyone who has come within 200 feet of the Oval,” Trump reportedly told staffers “in a recent meeting to laughs.”

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    1 day ago

    As long as it’s talking or writing about it people will find a way to justify it or just ignore it for sure.

    It’d be a different thing altogether if some VHS tape of him and a crying child happened to appear. That’d turn all but the most vehemently ghoulish people against even him. There’d be no coming back from that. Some might say deepfake this and that but it’d still have an impact.

    Probably why some survivors/witnesses simply disappeared. Probably why Melania did her little stunt the other day. Probably why Maxwell is still breathing, too. If someone stashed some tapes it would’ve been her. She had too much to lose. Nobody is truly untouchable when state actors are involved.