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President Donald Trump received an unsettling warning on his final night in the White House.
Huddled for a lengthy meeting with his legal advisers, Trump was warned the pardons he once hoped to bestow upon his family and even himself would place him in a legally perilous position, convey the appearance of guilt and potentially make him more vulnerable to reprisals.
CNN reports that Trump was also warned that pardons for Republican lawmakers who had sought them for their role in the Capitol insurrection would anger the very Senate Republicans who will determine his fate in an upcoming impeachment trial.
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White House counsel Pat Cipollone and another attorney who represented the president in his first impeachment trial, Eric Herschmann, offered the grave warnings as Trump, his daughter Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner listened. Other lawyers joined by telephone.
They all urged Trump not to pardon himself, his family or any Republican lawmaker in a prospective manner unless he was prepared to list specific crimes.
Cipollone and former Attorney General William Barr both warned the president earlier this month they did not believe he should pardon himself, multiple sources familiar with the matter told CNN last week.
Barr conveyed this position to Trump before resigning last month, sources say.
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