Fun Facts

If you get a pardon, that doesn't mean that the crimes you actually committed and were convicted of didn't ever happen. Nor does it mean that the crimes you really did commit but just haven't yet been charged didn't happen.  It only means that you can't be imprisoned or have further punishment for having done what you did.  Accepting a pardon has the equivalence of a guilty plea, and you still actually did what you actually did.

When you pardon as many mass murderers, remorseless felons. and witnesses who could testify against you as you possibly can, it doesn't change the outcome of the presidential election and you still really lost.

If you pardon someone and then are yourself indicted, they have no Fifth Amendment protection and must testify truthfully against you in court if called as a witness, or they could be charged with obstruction of justice.

So, okay, y'know all those conservative judges whose constitutional philosophy is based on "original intent"? It turns out that the Founding Father were not infallible. No, really.

If you cause a disastrous problem, and then later come back in to do what you should have done initially so that there wouldn't have been a problem in the first place, you don't get to claim "I saved the day.  Love me!"

No matter how many votes you get in an election, if your opponent gets more votes, you lose.

If you spend four years enabling the ongoing petulant, racist, disruptive, anti-democratic and infantile behavior of your party leader, as good as it is to see you finally express great dismay at his latest petulant, racist, disruptive, anti-democratic and infantile behavior, you are still complicit.