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Article II, Section 2, Clause 1:

The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment


Now I want you to realize that the founding fathers thought of every eventuality including what happens if a corrupt president decides to pardon all his corrupt cronies.


They literally reviewed 2,000 to 4,000 years of history and mistakes in leadership of all different forms of government known to them at the time including those of Greece and Rome and others.

They looked at the weights and balances of power among them all. To believe that they did not include in the Constitution a means to rectify a completely corrupt president pardoning all his corrupt cronies after the fact would be stupid.

Of course they thought of that which is why if you impeach a corrupt president after he leaves power you could nullify all the pardons he gave to his cronies as this constitutional clause says.


(In fact now that I think of it since Trump was impeached his disgusting pardons of Michael Milken the savings alone junk bond scammer who cost the country billions of dollars and is still prominent in finance today as well as Jonathan Pollard the famous Israeli spy that gave away US nuclear stealth sub-secrets to Israel who now has one of the most advanced submarine fleets in the world capable of launching their nuclear tipped missiles could also be said to be invalid)