Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said if elected, he would still pardon Donald Trump despite a new indictment charging the former president with additional crimes related to his alleged hoarding and hiding of classified documents.
“I would pardon him,” said Ramaswamy, a technology entrepreneur, on CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday. The Justice Department investigation of Trump is “clearly a politicized prosecution.” Ramaswamy said pardoning Trump was a way to “put the grievances of the past behind us.”
Ramaswamy’s defense of Trump was not echoed by other GOP 2024 contenders, but none of them went as far as to proclaim they would pardon him if he is convicted of any crimes.of many Republicans lagging Trump in the presidential polls: careful criticism of Trump, along with slamming the Justice Department for going after the former president.
“That should not be any discussion during a presidential campaign. You don’t put pardons out there to garner votes. That is premature. … anybody who promises pardons during a presidential campaign is not serving our system of justice well, and it’s inappropriate,” he said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.
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