Romney: President Biden Should Have Pardoned Trump ‘Immediately’ on Federal Charges, Pressured Local Prosecutors

Published on May 16, 2024

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) said he would have “immediately pardoned” former President Donald Trump if he were in President Joe Biden’s position when federal criminal charges first emerged. “Had I been President Biden, when the Justice Department brought on indictments, I would have immediately pardoned him. I’d have pardoned President Trump,” Mr. Romney told MSNBC. Mr. Romney has been a critic of President Trump. In 2016 he gave a speech urging Republicans to reject then-candidate Trump’s White House bid that election cycle. Mr. Romney was one of the few Republicans who joined Democrats in voting to convict President Trump in his 2020 impeachment trial and again in his 2021 impeachment trial....

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