Why would your attorneys, and it was an army of attorneys that came with him to Capitol Hill tell you not to answer any questions at all if you've already been pardoned? Because a pardon is retrospective. A pardon immunizes him for criminal conduct he committed in the past prior to the day that Joe Biden pardoned him. The pardon does not immunize him for crimes that he commits in the future. And the reason he pleaded the Fifth is his alternative is he was going to lie through his teeth. (19:36–19:46)
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Asserts that a pardon only covers past criminal conduct before the pardon was issued.
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