If that pardon hadn't happened, if Nixon had gone to prison, the tiny-fingered, ferret-wearing, cheeto-faced sh*tgibbon would never have even tried to be president.
Reagan wouldn't have gotten away with the criminal "just keep the hostages a little bit longer" deal, or Iran-Contra. Shrubby would still be in prison for war crimes.
And the failed real estate developer turned TV personality would never have come down that escalator to call Mexicans rapists, because he would know that the grift he was planning would send him to prison for the rest of his worthless life.
Sure, the mayor says that. But what's Wiggum got to say about it?