Donald Trump says he has ‘complete power’ to pardon amid Russia probes

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Donald Trump has said he has &&num;8220&semi;complete power&&num;8221&semi; to issue pardons&comma; an assertion that comes amid investigations into Russian interference in last year&&num;8217&semi;s presidential election&period; The subject of pardons is one of many topics that appears to be occupying the president&&num;8217&semi;s mind&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In a flurry of 10 tweets&comma; Mr Trump commented about pardons&comma; former presidential rival Hillary Clinton&comma; his eldest son Donald Jr&comma; health care&comma; the USS Gerald Ford&comma; the attorney general and other issues&period; Mr Trump wrote in one of his 10 messages&colon; &&num;8220&semi;While all agree the U&period; S&period; President has the complete power to pardon&comma; why think of that when only crime so far is LEAKS against us&period; FAKE NEWS&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Washington Post has reported that Mr Trump has inquired about his authority to pardon aides&comma; relatives or even himself in connection with the widening investigation into Russian interference in the election and whether any Trump associates were involved&period; One of Mr Trump&&num;8217&semi;s lawyers&comma; Jay Sekulow&comma; said the president has not discussed the issue of pardons with his outside legal team&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;07&sol;IMG&lowbar;2718&period;jpg"><img src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;07&sol;IMG&lowbar;2718-1024x427&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"640" height&equals;"267" class&equals;"aligncenter size-large wp-image-115776" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Speaking to reporters at the site of the Western Conservative Summit in Denver&comma; he said that Mr Trump&&num;8217&semi;s private legal team is &&num;8220&semi;not researching it because it&&num;8217&semi;s not an issue&&num;8221&semi;&period; Mr Sekulow said&colon; &&num;8220&semi;I don&&num;8217&semi;t know where this came from&period; There is nothing to pardon&comma;&&num;8221&semi; adding that &&num;8220&semi;what&&num;8217&semi;s going on in Washington is an attack on the president&&num;8221&semi;&period; Mr Trump remains furious over multiple investigations into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He tweeted that people are asking why what he calls &&num;8220&semi;crimes&&num;8221&semi; by election opponent Hillary Clinton and former FBI director James Comey are not being investigated&period; Next week&comma; Donald Jr&comma; Mr Trump&&num;8217&semi;s son-in-law and White House adviser Jared Kushner and his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort will appear before Senate committees investigating Russian meddling&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Trump defended his son in one of the tweets&comma; saying he &&num;8220&semi;openly gave his e-mails to the media &&num;038&semi; authorities whereas Crooked Hillary Clinton deleted &lpar;&&num;038&semi; acid washed&rpar; her 33&comma;000 e-mails&excl;&&num;8221&semi; Donald Jr has become a focus of the investigation after it was revealed that he&comma; Mr Kushner and Mr Manafort met Russian representatives at Trump Tower in June 2016&period; Mr Trump Jr later released email exchanges concerning the meeting on Twitter&comma; after learning that The New York Times was about to publish them&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The FBI investigated Mrs Clinton for using a private email server as secretary of state&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;She turned over thousands of pages of emails to the government&comma; but deleted thousands of others that she said were personal or unrelated to her work as the nation&&num;8217&semi;s top diplomat&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ece99546984">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; 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