No, Trump cant pardon himself. The Constitution tells us so.

[BzaDem]

29. I agree that Nixon could pardon Ford. I was using the question to dispute the logic in the OP.

From the OP:

It adds that any official removed through impeachment remains fully subject to criminal prosecution. That provision would make no sense if the president could pardon himself.

The logic of the OP says that because of the first sentence in the above quote, an impeached president cannot pardon himself. I was pointing out that the logic of that argument would not just prohibit self-pardons, but a much larger universe of pardons. In other words, the logic leads to an absurdity, which means that there is something wrong with the logic.

I happen to disagree with the second sentence. The provision in the first sentence (that an official removed through impeachment remains subject to prosecution) makes perfect sense, even if the president could pardon himself. It doesn't say that impeached officials are ALWAYS subject to prosecution, under all circumstances. It just means that the act of impeachment does not remove the ability to prosecute (and is in fact wholly independent). It does not prohibit OTHER circumstances (such as a pardon, prosecutorial grant of immunity, jury finding of not-guilty, etc) from removing the ability to prosecute.

Now, despite the logic of the OP being somewhat unsound, I do believe self pardons would be unconstitutional. But my reasoning has nothing to do with the sentences quoted from the OP.