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ROSENZWEIG: "Well, back in 2017, I thought that Trump was an aberration, an unusual and black swan, if you will. And my thought was that you had to defend the norms of the rule of law, good governance, and the only way to do that was to maintain them even in the face of his aberrational behavior. Today I think we know that Trump is not an aberration. He’s a phenomenon. He’s a movement. And as such, what we have to do is re-calibrate how we respond to that. And it now strikes me as essential to at least begin to play to the edge of the field, right, to go as far as the law permits in combating the authoritarian excesses of Trump. And the way I wrote about it in The Atlantic is the pardon power. A pardon for Hunter Biden, a pardon for Trump’s critics would be completely normative-breaking and it would be out of character, out of historical tradition. But at this point, I was listening to your earlier broadcast, you were talking about Kash Patel. He’s got a list of 60 people he wants to prosecute. That’s a real list. Will he do all of them? I don’t know. Will there be resistance at the FBI? Probably. But one of the realities of being investigated is that investigation has a cost, even if you’re not prosecuted in the end. You have to hire a lawyer, the mental cost, the time, the resources. So it strikes me as perfectly reasonable to ask what can President Biden do within the bounds of law, even if it would not be normatively traditional to save his allies from that. And the answer is, obviously, pardon them."
