I, with you, find Trump's pardons absolutely appalling, but not surprising. He wants to insure closed mouths.
But I'm not so sure those he pardoned will be able to escape subpoenas from the New York investigations going on, assuming they would know anything relevant to it
Trump will be in a jail cell somewhere next year this time or in a foreign country.
His Grinch behavior this year will, I believe, cause him to lose more of his base.
If he has any left after a thorough investigation of the theft of government money he and his family have been guilty of.
