Conservative groups influential with the Trump administration have pressed for the preemptive acts of clemency.
There’s a world of difference between a pardon issues to prevent malicious prosecution for non-crimew and one issued to people you’ve been instructing to commit crimes
Yes. 100%.
Arrest them. Again and again. Let the rest of their lives be spent fighting the “lawfare” they kept claiming was being waged against conservatives (but that they now aim at Democrats).