It’s highly unlikely Trump can pull off a self-pardon. Even the worst of the far right republicans aren’t going to want to live with the precedent it would set. From NPR on 1-9-21: “If you play this out, a president before leaving the White House, could, for instance, sell the greatest state secrets, the nuclear codes, for billions of dollars, and then pardon himself on the way out the door, " says Kenneth Gormley, president of Duquesne” University in Pittsburgh and author of The Presidents and the Constitution: A Living History.