pard bs? it tells me they re playing it safe. they doen t want to throw out negative csignals, so they re keeping them friendly. and that s a smart strategy. i think that they recognize that if the president were to pardon a slew of people involved in this, that he would be in real hot water and that this would be likely obstruction. this is what happened to knicks en. the fact he promised pardons to people. hinted at them. they were all over the tapes. having err lihis top domestic gd out signals to people that he would consider them and that later came back to haunt him with the house judiciary and impeachment bill that was prepared. to be b clear here, ty cobb, the lawyer in the white house, insisted there s no consideration for a flynn pardon. he s also said the same about manafort and gates. he told the washington post,