Jamie Raskin actually said...

the president has the power to pardon in order to correct manifest injustices with an exercise of justice or to balance the operation of jus...

if a president were literally to sell pardons, to take money for pardons, that would be bribery.

the president can only pardon for federal offenses. The president cannot pardon in a way that is effective against state criminal prosecutio...

he doles out pardons like a mob boss would, to reward his political friends and conversely he uses his power over the Department of Justice ...