1. Why didn’t Bush want to pardon Libby?
2. Why does Trump want to pardon Libby now?
To your question #2, why not?
1. Legacy
2. To piss off Comey......................
Because the Muller thing with Trump is the same thing they did to Bush. He making the Plame clown show the Dems pull against Bush part of the story line.
Libby mis rembered some facts and had the book throw at him. Clintonites, like Comney, knowinly lied full scale and get book deals.
The case has its connections to Mr. Trump because Mr. Fitzgerald was friends with James B. Comey, who was then the deputy attorney general who assigned him the investigation after the attorney general recused himself. Mr. Cheney long suspected that Mr. Comey was taking revenge for a dispute between them over the legality of a surveillance program.
Mr. Comey would go on to become the director of the F.B.I. who was fired by Mr. Trump last year in the midst of the Russia investigation. His dismissal led the deputy attorney general, Rod J. Rosenstein, who was in charge after the recusal of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, to appoint Robert S. Mueller III as special counsel to take over the inquiry.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/12/us/politics/trump-pardon-scooter-libby.html
To p-off Cheney.
2. Why does Trump want to pardon Libby now?
To p-off Comey
I think this pardon is a shot across the bow to Mueller and it reminds Mueller that the president can “pardon” anyone including himself.
I think it sends a very strong signal to Mueller and the swamp that President DJT will do what it takes to fight back against the swamp.
Bush is a little bitch who said “I respect the juries verdict”.