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Fake news story from today's New York Times. Obviously, Trump could pardon a corpse if he wanted to, and Vice President Mike Pence does need to learn how to pardon presidents, but come on, are we supposed to believe Patricia Nixon Cox would be there to witness the pardon? 

Below is the story as reported.

TRUMP GIVES PARDON TO RICHARD NIXON’S CORPSE

  

No Conditions Set, Nixon’s Body to Remain Interred

Action Taken to Remind Nation and Vice President Pence of President’s ‘Perfect and Absolute’ Power to Pardon

Trump Grants Pardon for Any Crimes in Office and Any Crimes Committed After His Resignation or “Even After His Death” 

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(Associated Press)

Vice President Pence was instructed by President Trump to attend the ceremony to “see how it’s done” and Mrs. Nixon Cox stands behind the President as he signs the pardon.

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By Linand Sinker

Washington, Oct. 14--President Trump granted former President Richard M. Nixon’s corpse an unconditional pardon today for all Federal crimes that he “committed or may have committed or taken part in while in office, any after he resigned from office, and any after he died and went to wherever he is in the afterlife”, an act Mr. Trump said was intended to spare Mr. Nixon and the nation further embarrassment from the Watergate scandals, while also reminding Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff of his power to pardon, “which is perfect and absolute.”

This pardon follows on the heels of Mr. Trump’s surprising and controversial awarding of an honor to another conservative whom he also “thought was already dead,”former Reagan Attorney General Edwin Meese III. On Tuesday of Last week, in a ceremony at the White House’s Oval Office, Mr. Meese was awarded the Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor.

Mr. Meese surprised Mr. Trump when he showed up to accept the award. “I thought you were already dead,” quipped the obviously startled Trump. 

Mr. Nixon, who died in1994, was unavailable to accept the pardon, but his daughter, Patricia Nixon Cox accepted the pardon on behalf of her father’s corpse, saying her father would have been, “not only honored to be the only president in U.S. history to be pardoned for the same offenses by two separate presidents, but the first corpse to receive a presidential pardon. Mr. Nixon’s first pardon, issued by President Gerald Ford in 1974, was controversial at the time but done, according to Mr. Ford, to unite the nation after the contentious and protracted Watergate hearings. This pardon once again exempts Mr. Nixon from indictment and trial for, among other things, his role in the cover-up of the Watergate burglary. Mrs. Cox re-issued her father’s statement from 1974 saying that he could now see he was “wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.”

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