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Opinion: Mitt Romney Has a Point About Pardoning Trump
The Daily Beast ^ | May 17, 2024 | Matt Lewis

Posted on 05/17/2024 10:56:24 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?

Donald Trump poses an existential threat to liberal democracy; therefore, a reasonable reaction to his possible return to power has been to throw everything but the kitchen sink at him.

This ranged from supporting his impeachment and removal, to voting for his adversaries (including Nikki Haley), to charging him with 88 criminal offenses in four criminal cases.........

During an interview on Wednesday with MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle, Romney said that President Joe Biden should have “immediately pardoned” Trump from federal charges, and that Biden also “made an enormous error” by not pushing New York prosecutors to drop their charges against Trump in the hush money case......

At this point, you’re probably wondering what happened to Mitt Romney, and why he has been replaced by Steve Bannon. But there is a method to his madness. According to Romney, preemptively pardoning Trump would have helped Biden politically, positioning him as “the big guy” who “pardoned a little guy.”

At first blush, this sounds fanciful. Imagine the criticism Biden would have endured if, in the wake of the Big Lie and the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, he threw Trump yet another lifeline.

But in hindsight, Romney’s counterfactual isn’t as crazy as it might sound. By going out of his way to treat Trump with the deference of a political invalid, Biden would have looked like the alpha dog.

Might Trump have rejected the offer, based on the premise that accepting a pardon is tantamount to admitting guilt? It hardly matters. Merely by offering the pardon, Biden would have deprived Trump of some of his most potent weapons—Trump’s identity as a victim of Biden’s “deep state,” as well as what is both his personal motivation and political organizing principle: retribution.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: capitolriot; election2024; jan6; letsgobrandon; mattlewis; rejectthepardon; romney; trumppardon; trumptrials
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To: LizzieD
Clearly the moron Mitt doesn’t understand that the Biden DOJ is BEHIND all the BS legal cases. Why would Biden pardon Trump after going to so much trouble to frame him?

Yup!

41 posted on 05/18/2024 8:55:20 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
Thanks for Plan C Mitt.

🧐 Gee how can I leave the stain of illegality without a conviction and it appears there will be no conviction in time…. 🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐 I got it! Pardon Trump! Voters will think he is a criminal since he was pardoned….. Nice back door move Mitt!

Have you alway been a back door type of guy?

42 posted on 05/18/2024 9:00:31 AM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting…)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

The word, “pardon”, implies a crime. It’s icky.


43 posted on 05/18/2024 9:04:31 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Navarro didn't kill himself.)
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To: OakOak
Biden ordered the Trump Raid.

No - the people who tell Biden what to do ordered the Trump raid.

44 posted on 05/18/2024 9:12:09 AM PDT by SFConservative
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Mitt is trying to help Biden, this move undoubtedly would benefit Biden more than Trump.

But Biden’s handlers are too petty and dumb to take the advice.


45 posted on 05/18/2024 9:14:30 AM PDT by Truthsearcher
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To: Ciaphas Cain

Pierre Delecto is a blithering idiot.


46 posted on 05/18/2024 9:39:40 AM PDT by abbastanza (he)
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To: abbastanza

He’s a moron.


47 posted on 05/18/2024 9:40:28 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: mabarker1

Exactly and a pardon would send the message that Trump must of done something wrong or else why the pardon?


48 posted on 05/18/2024 12:17:57 PM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting…)
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To: kenmcg

Whether or not Trump committed a crime is irrelevant in this context. He has been indicted for violations of federal law, which means he is very close to legal jeopardy. Pardoning him would have been a good move.


49 posted on 05/18/2024 4:11:40 PM PDT by Bob Wills is still the king (Just a Texas Playboy at heart)
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