Salon.com: Donald Trump’s unpardonable endgame: Does the president have unlimited power to pardon anyone?

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Abrams joined “Salon Talks” to discuss his book, [“Lincoln's Last Trial: The Murder Case That Propelled Him to the Presidency”]( which explores the year 1859 and takes the reader inside a murder trial courtroom with Abraham Lincoln, nine months before he got the Republican nomination. The book unearths the only transcript of Lincoln’s law career ever found, discovered in a garage in 1989. Abrams even explains how some lessons from the book could be applied to the current political situation, including the Mueller investigation. But Abrams emphasizes the importance of how the media perceives Donald Trump. Abrams explains to Salon’s Executive Editor Andrew O’Hehir, “It can't be every time the president says something that is not accurate, it's a lie. Because I think to say it's a lie, there has to be . . . I don't want to say proof, but you have to believe that he knows it's not true.” In this divisive period of United States history, Abrams stresses why it’s important to distinguish between the two situations of lying and being inaccurate, “I do think that the media has an obligation to state that it is inaccurate.” Watch the video above to hear Abrams’ analysis on whether Trump believed that there was a law that required the separation of children from their parents at the border. And watch the [full interview]( to learn more about Abrams’ book on Lincoln’s last trial as a lawyer before he took office. Tune in for SalonTV's live shows, ["Salon Talks"]( and ["Salon Stage"]( , daily at noon ET / 9 a.m. PT and 4 p.m. ET / 1 p.m. PT, streaming live on [YouTube]( , [Facebook]( and [Periscope]( . [TZpvFfyb-720.jpg]( [Melania can speak out on cyberbullying, but I won’t support FLOTUS until she dumps Trump]( Salon’s D. Watkins doesn’t feel sorry for Melania Trump, no matter how many good things she does to combat cyberbullying and any number of the digs she takes at the president along the way. Watkins is fed up with everything Melania, from her super luxury gardening wardrobe, to her delayed and expensive move into the White House, to the speech she stole from Michelle Obama when she could’ve easily bought her own. Watkins doesn’t think Melania Trump is trapped and thinks she knows exactly what she was getting into when she chose to marry Donald. Check out the video above to hear the five reasons why Watkins is done with the first lady. Do you agree? 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The #MeToo movement that began with Burke will still continue on and be valid regardless of who tries to discredit it. It’s still important for #MeToo to reach as many people as possible because as Burke says, “it was liberating to me to know that there were other people like me.” Watch SalonTV’s [full interview]( with Burke to learn more about her vision for #MeToo’s future. Tune in for SalonTV's live shows, ["Salon Talks"]( and ["Salon Stage"]( , daily at noon ET / 9 a.m. PT and 4 p.m. ET / 1 p.m. PT, streaming live on [YouTube]( , [Facebook]( and [Periscope]( . [npREM8vD-720.jpg]( [Devin Nunes' opponent Andrew Janz makes the case for kicking Nunes off the Russia investigation]( Rep. Devin Nunes, a Republican from California, is the head of the House Intelligence Committee and is supposed to be investigating whether President Donald Trump was involved in an effort by Russian spies to steal private information from Democratic campaign officials to manipulate the 2016 elections. 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