Those posters are incredible. Cindy Crawford is quite masculine in the Fair Game poster. That was certainly an interesting artistic interpretation

I’m in the option 2 camp. While it is entirely possible that he really did die I’m skeptical and think this is some sort of plan of his. I don’t mean to sound conspiratorial but it’s so hard to believe anything reported by Russia

He can only pardon himself from federal charges. Since these are at the state level I believe it would require the governor to pardon him

I don’t think the online backlash matters. The real question is if Abbott is receiving any backlash in Texas and it appears probably not much, if any. Texans need to step up here and they don’t seem to be doing that.