The president can only pardon those convicted of federal crimes. He was convicted of state crimes in New York state, and only the governor of New York can pardon those convicted of crimes at the state level.

A pardon is an admission of guilt.

Case in point.

https://publicintegrity.org/politics/state-politics/copy-paste-legislate/you-elected-them-to-write-new-laws-theyre-letting-corporations-do-it-instead/

https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/bills?cycle=2021&id=D000000128#:~:text=Walt Disney Co spent $4345000 lobbying in 2021. See the bills it lobbied.

Working that SEO pretty hard there, bud.

12:34 is known as “simulation time” in my house, the time we notice the most out of sheer happenstance. Clearly the simulation has a hard time coming up with anything better when I look at the clock.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe’s_law

Is there a non-paywalled link?