A Presidential Pardon is like never committing the crime at all.  So what if Trump pardons himself of inciting the riot?

A Presidential pardon applies only to Federal crimes.  The US Justice Department has already ruled that a President cannot pardon himself, so don't expect Trump to get away with that one.   The State of New York has two indictments that become effective at noon on January 20, one for tax fraud and one for fraud.  Presidential pardons do not apply to State crimes, so they should keep Trump in jail until SCOTUS rule on whether he can be tried for insurrection and seditious libel.  He should spend the rest of his life behind bars.

The innocent don't need a pardon. If Pence pardons trump, that's considered conventional. If trump tries to pardon himself, it will spark a Constitutional crisis to be challenged. You are wrong about the definition. 

A pardon is simply the act of the United States president setting aside the punishment for a federal crime.

Well, actually, a pardon is tantamount to an admission of guilt. You can't be pardoned for a crime you haven't committed. What's more, your rational goes nowhere in the private sector. Who's going to hire him to do anything? The answer: "More people than will lend him money."

Obviously you can. Libs try it all the time, while refusing to try their own fellow libs for even worse crimes. Double standards. Two faced people are some of the lowest form of humans. 

They wait until he is no longer president, that's why he was desperate to stay.