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Romney says he would have immediately pardoned Trump

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Romney says if he were president he would have immediately pardoned Trump
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/15/politics/mitt-romney-pardon-trump-biden/index.html
Utah GOP Sen. Mitt Romney said that if he were President Joe Biden he would have “immediately pardoned” former President Donald Trump.

“Had I been President Biden, when the Justice Department brought on indictments, I would have immediately pardoned him,” Romney told MSNBC’s “The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle” in an interview set to air Wednesday. “I’d have pardoned President Trump. Why? Well, because it makes me, President Biden, the big guy and the person I pardoned a little guy.”
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What a bunch of crap. "The big guy" my ass. Claiming he would pardon a person like Trump just makes him in league with the rest of the MAGA fools.

Ranb
 
Ranb said:
Romney says if he were president he would have immediately pardoned Trump
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/15/politics/mitt-romney-pardon-trump-biden/index.html

What a bunch of crap. "The big guy" my ass. Claiming he would pardon a person like Trump just makes him in league with the rest of the MAGA fools.

Ranb
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Agreed. Ford pardoning Nixon was bad, but Trump has much more egregious crimes on his resume.

Romney is saying he would pardon Trump if he killed someone. What the hell.

Wouldn't have gotten Trump off from the Georgia or New York cases anyway.

Seems that these old guys hit a certain age and their thought processes go to hell.
 
Is this a job interview for VP?.

"Hey Trump! Make me VP, step down, and I'll make sure you will get away scott-free."
 
This is one of those "reasonable, prinicpled" Republicans I keep getting told about, right? The ones Democrats should make deals with? The ones who aren't totally on board with the far-right and simply keeping up a "civil" facade?
 
No, this comes off as a Susan Collins type "he learned his lesson" line.
 
Donal said:
No, this comes off as a Susan Collins type "he learned his lesson" line.
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Not at all to me. This is the punchline, which is a clear dig at Donny: “I’d have pardoned President Trump. Why? Well, because it makes me, President Biden, the big guy and the person I pardoned a little guy.”
 
Norman Alexander said:
Not at all to me. This is the punchline, which is a clear dig at Donny: “I’d have pardoned President Trump. Why? Well, because it makes me, President Biden, the big guy and the person I pardoned a little guy.”
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Proof that he doesn't understand MAGA and Trump at all.

All they would have cried about until the next election would have been:
"Biden is too scared for the FACTS to come out in a trial! He is covering up what the Deep State/FBI/AntiFa did!
Trump did nothing wrong, and pardoning him is an insult!"
 
The Great Zaganza said:
Proof that he doesn't understand MAGA and Trump at all.
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On the contrary. Proof he understands them all too well. The [bad attempt at a] joke is that Donny would be put in a position of being beholden to Biden (hey, alliteration!) which he would hate. The joke falls flat because so many people can't see it's a joke. Everyone, and Romney, knows that nothing embarrasses Trump.
 
Norman Alexander said:
Not at all to me. This is the punchline, which is a clear dig at Donny: “I’d have pardoned President Trump. Why? Well, because it makes me, President Biden, the big guy and the person I pardoned a little guy.”
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Looks rather like "the public should recognise that letting me win some dick-measuring contest with that guy is clearly more important than his actually paying for what he did".
 
Or "he'll owe me a favor" which is exactly why impeachment was written into the Constitution. Assuming the Orange Weakling even acknowledges what Biden did for him.
 
If multiverse theory is correct then there is a place out there, somewhere, where Mitt Romney's thoughts matter to anyone.
 
He'd pardon him, but then he'd part him out and sell all his organs for a profit like he was Kay-Bee Toys.
 
He would look like the Big Guy, and Trump the Little Guy, but at way too high a price. Some things are more valuable than image games, Justice and Accountability being big ones.
 
I wouldn't mind Trump being pardoned but it would come with a stipulation much like a plea agreement. He would have to hold a press conference admitting fault, taking responsibility, and apologizing to the victims he affected.

Then, and only then, would he get a pardon. We all know he wouldn't do it.
 
Thermal said:
He would look like the Big Guy, and Trump the Little Guy, but at way too high a price. Some things are more valuable than image games, Justice and Accountability being big ones.
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That's where I land. Justice is not about who's the better person. We're a country of laws, not of people. It's about the rule of law. This sounds so much like "good boy, bad boy" theory that seems to drive conservatives.

Every time Romney seems like he's the only sane voice in the GOP, he reminds us he's just as nuts as most of the rest of them.

plague311 said:
I wouldn't mind Trump being pardoned but it would come with a stipulation much like a plea agreement. He would have to hold a press conference admitting fault, taking responsibility, and apologizing to the victims he affected.
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I may be wrong about this, but I think accepting a pardon is tantamount to an admission of guilt. Not that it matters.
 
plague311 said:
I wouldn't mind Trump being pardoned but it would come with a stipulation much like a plea agreement. He would have to hold a press conference admitting fault, taking responsibility, and apologizing to the victims he affected.

Then, and only then, would he get a pardon. We all know he wouldn't do it.
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Seems lame. If you want to use the presidential pardon, use it. Don't pussyfoot around playing nonsense games with it.
 
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