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As i undersrand it, he can't be prosecuted as a serving president.
He'd need to be impeached first.
He can't then pardon anything.
If he were convicted and pardoned of a federal crime (the conviction has to come first), that requires acknowledgement of the crime. It's not a quashing of a conviction.
But he could also be done on state charges, which is he leverage is being applied in the others involved - those cannot be pardoned by the President.
NotThamesWater
could trump pardon himself even if he was done for something as serious as espionage
or would he just flee to russia and live out his days being pissed on by ladies of the night at the moscow sheraton