No anon, this is a brilliant time for pardons
Outgoing presidents always do a raft of pardons and personnel moves that are often controversial, but slide by because "he is on his way out"
Clinton took the cake with his pardon of Marc Rich - after that literally nothing would raise eyebrows
So POTUS does all he wants now, and many Democrats will be like "yeah, yeah, do your pardons, you are leaving soon"
As we know, however, and undoubtedly a few savvy Dems know, POTUS is not going anywhere, and he is making massive moves under the radar that people will suddenly realize months from now were a pretty big fucken deal for a guy with 4 more years in the office to make