Donald Trump has promised to pardon his White House staffers, reported the Wall Street Journal’s Josh Dawsey in an exclusive report on Friday.

Dawsey, the veteran DC reporter, cited “people who have heard his comments” in the bombshell report revealing that Trump is asking his staff to operate with a sense of impunity.

“I’ll pardon everyone who has come within 200 feet of the Oval,” Trump reportedly told staffers “in a recent meeting to laughs.”

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    8 hours ago

    The bombshell is: His staff, despite interacting with the guy daily, believed him, I guess…

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      3 hours ago

      Well why not? He likely will throw pardons around (it likely makes him hard to abuse the system). At this point they kinda have to go for broke, they are “all in” so to speak.