When you start your own country by committing treason, you want to have that trump card up your sleeve. Who knows. Maybe one day you and yours will have to do it again. For democracy of course.

I don't even know how this works, everyone acts like a Presidential Pardon is a magic "get out of jail free forever" card but I feel like it's not actually like that. There's literally nothing stopping a current President from going and doing a military arrest on someone previously pardoned, except ...