The correct answer is A) is admitting guilt for a crime.
Some people argue that anyone who accepts a presidential pardon is admitting guilt for a crime.
We are talking about the federal pardons in which the President of the United States can pardon any criminal offense to the United States. The Constitution grants him this faculty on Article II, Section 2, Clause 1. When this happens, legal experts say that the individual that accepts this presidential pardon also assumes a confession of guilt.