https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/gop-sen-mitt-romney-says-biden-pardoned-trump-rcna152420
Romney, a vocal critic of Trump, said, I think its a terrible fault for our country to see people attacking our legal system thats an enormous mistake. I think its also demeaning for people to quite apparently try and run for vice president by donning a red tie and standing outside the courthouse. It's just I'd have felt awkward.
The Utah Republican argued that Biden should have pardoned Trump when the Justice Department announced charges against him and that the president made an enormous error by not pressuring New York prosecutors to drop their case against Trump. (Presidents can pardon only in federal cases.)
"He should have fought like crazy to keep this prosecution from going forward, Romney said, referring to Biden. It was a win-win for Donald Trump.
Pressed by Ruhle whether that is Bidens job to pardon Trump, Romney said he believes that Biden should have taken a cue from former President Lyndon B. Johnson, saying that the president could have stepped in and urged New York prosecutors to drop the case.
I have been around for a while. If LBJ had been president, and he didnt want something like this to happen, hed have been all over that prosecutor saying, You better not bring that forward or Im gonna drive you out of office, he said.
Ruhle then noted that Romney supports having separate but equal branches of government.
I do. ... You may disagree with this, but had I been President Biden, when the Justice Department brought on indictments, I would have immediately pardoned him. 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.
One of the dumber Republicans