Now I'm not sure but I could have sworn we learned in school that people who need pardons did something wrong.
The weird thing is at Trumps' age and lack of health it would make more sense to at some point have him step down and have Vance pardon him.
But one of the claims out there is that Trump is telling Biden if he doesn't pardon him, they will go after Biden with the DOJ. Which ought to be hilarious since we already know they have absolutely nothing to get him on.