Trump: "I Did Nothing Wrong"--"But I'm Allowed To Do A Self-Pardon"
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2026/10/15/trump_i_did_nothing_wrong_but_im_allowed_to_do_a_self-pardon.html

President Trump told Newxmax that he is considering pardoning himself and members of his staff before leaving office:

REPORTER: Joe Biden pardoned his brother. He pardoned his sister. He pardoned his son. He pardoned half of Washington, almost everybody. He invented the preemptive pardon.

So I just have to ask you, are you seriously considering a self-pardon before you leave office?

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, I don't think about it because I did nothing wrong. I could have given myself a pardon the last time I left office. I never thought that they'd drag me through the mud.

REPORTER: Do you regret that?

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, I won, but I won the hard way. Yeah, but I'm allowed to do a pardon, a self-pardon. I'm allowed to pardon. One thing, the only thing Biden did is he proved that. You know, the pardon is very powerful. I know that they say it's the most powerful thing a president has, the power of pardon.

I can tell you this: I don't want to see my people go through, because these people are lunatics on the left. I don't want to see people that work for me go through years of nonsense, hire lawyers and everything else, all for nothing.

So I'm probably glad I didn't do it the first time, but I had to go through a lot. But I won. I don't want my people to go through.

You know, at the end of two and a half years, we will have done things that nobody's ever done. This has been a great presidency. My first one was a great presidency. We had the greatest economy in the history of our country. We did Space Force. I rebuilt the military. They wasted it.

You know, they talk about ammunition. We're building up ammunition very, very rapidly, by the way. We're keeping it for ourselves. We're just building it up very rapidly. We're getting Patriots at record levels. We're getting Tomahawks at record levels. We're building very quickly.

But when I first came, you had Obama. Our cupboards were empty because he didn't want to buy any ammunition. I filled it up.