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The good news is that Mueller has a fail-safe set up through SDNY, so anybody that gets pardoned for blatant violations of federal law automatically gets referred to prosecution on the state level for equivalent charges. In that way he's got Trump completely boxed in. Mueller could also simply wait until the new administration is in place before bringing the charges at all, since you can't pardon people for future charges.While we don't have precedent of it happening after a lost election, we do have precedent of a criminal president resigning to be pardoned by the VP-turned-president.