Yesterday, Donald Trump issued more pardons to people who do not deserve absolution, including:

• Roger Stone — Trump whisperer and man with Richard Nixon’s face tattooed on his back — who was convicted of witness tampering and lying to federal agents during the Mueller investigation into how Russia helped Trump become president.

• Paul Manafort — former Trump campaign manager and “renowned” lobbyist for assorted autocrats and dictators — who was convicted of obstruction of justice and witness tampering throughout the Mueller probe as well as a myriad of financial fraud and other crimes.

• Charles Kushner — father of Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner — who was convicted of tax evasion, campaign finance violations, and obstruction of justice (in connection with a sordid plot that involved hiring a prostitute he secretly videotaped his brother-in-law with then sending that tape to his sister).

This follows Trump’s pardoning, Monday night, of four men convicted for their roles — as employees of the private military contractor then known as Blackwater — in the slaughter of 14 Iraqi civilians in the 2007 Nisour Square massacre.

Who will Trump pardon next? His own children? Himself?

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Pass legislation to (1) require transparency around pardons that may benefit the president or undermine Congress, (2) make pardons and commutations subject to federal anti-bribery laws, and (3) explicitly forbid presidents from pardoning themselves.

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