In the final weeks of the Trump presidency, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) asked the White House for blanket pre-emptive pardons for himself and unidentified congressional allies for any crimes they may have committed, The New York Times reported on Tuesday night.
Okay, that doesn’t mean for certain that Gaetz did anything wrong. Maybe he was asking for a pardon because he likes collecting them… much the way he enjoys collecting revenge porn.
I didn’t read the article because fuck those guys, but I suspect it’s literally true that Trump passed because he was concerned about the effect on his reputation. 
So, Gaetz was a real visionary - he wanted a
“PARDON PASSPORT”
… like it was some sort of super power
Now, THAT is funny 
A blanket pardon would forgive all his Federal crimes, even those undisclosed to the President. I have to give Gaetz credit, he or his lawyer, was thinking ahead.
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) asked the White House for blanket pre-emptive pardons for himself and unidentified congressional allies for any crimes they may have committed
Undated pardons, of course, because what’s the point of being pardoned if you can’t do the sweet, sweet crimnin’ again and again?
That underage women thing might be a ticklish matter for Trump, just saying.
This revelation kind of gives the lie to his insistence that he did nothing wrong, doesn’t it.
Buh bye, Mattie.
Matt Gaetz is determined to stay the number one political news story, isn’t he?
It’s an unsourced Schmidt and Haberman article, which raises the question of just who is dishing this dirt to our favorite access journalists?
Whaaaaat? Ex post facto pardons for anything you ever did or ever will do? Impocerous. I can’t believe that’s part of it.
Trump reportedly said, “if I can’t get one of those, nobody can!”
Doesn’t hurt to ask.
Someone who wants a favor publicity-wise in the future. That would narrrow it down to the mid- or high five figures.
Well, he’s got a hand full of gimme, that’s for sure.
Andrew Cuomo?
Well Matt – as my Mom would have said…“what have you been doing with that blanket that it would need a pardon” …
As some wag asked, elsewhere:
It’s totally normal to seek a blanket pardon if you haven’t done anything wrong.
A Gaetz spokesman
He has a new one already?