{"id":2245589,"date":"2024-05-15T22:19:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T02:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/romney-says-biden-made-enormous-error-in-not-pardoning-trump\/"},"modified":"2024-05-15T22:19:53","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T02:19:53","slug":"romney-says-biden-made-enormous-error-in-not-pardoning-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/romney-says-biden-made-enormous-error-in-not-pardoning-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Romney criticizes Biden for not pardoning Trump, calling it a major mistake"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fromney-says-biden-made-enormous-error-in-not-pardoning-trump%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2245589&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Senator Mitt Romney from Utah criticized President Joe\u200d Biden for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/parents-outraged-after-elite-nyc-school-shows-video-to-eighth-graders-of-white-women-being-ridiculed-for-being-white\/\" title=\"Parents Outraged After Elite NYC School Shows Video To Eighth-Graders Of White Women Being Ridiculed For Being White\">significant mistake<\/a> in not pardoning former President Donald Trump. Romney&#8217;s comments were made during an interview\u2064 where he suggested\u200d that Biden should have pardoned Trump for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/protesters-defend-protests-say-protection-around-capitol-building-was-inadequate\/\" title=\"Protesters defend protests, say protection around Capitol building was inadequate\">federal charges<\/a> he is facing. This stance was a\u2063 departure\u200d from \u200dRomney&#8217;s usual criticisms of \u200dTrump. Senator Mitt Romney of Utah stated \u2064that President Joe Biden&#8217;s\u2063 decision not to pardon former President Donald Trump was a major error.\u2062 Romney&#8217;s remarks were part\u2063 of\u2063 an interview where he recommended \u2064that Trump should\u200b have\u200d been pardoned for\u2063 his federal charges. This perspective\u200c marked \u200da shift from \u200cRomney&#8217;s typical criticisms of Trump.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_78\">\n<p>Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/Mitt-Romney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Mitt Romney\">Mitt Romney<\/a> (R-UT) said President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Joe Biden\">Joe Biden<\/a> made an \u201cenormous error\u201d in not pardoning former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/gop-sen-mitt-romney-says-biden-pardoned-trump-rcna152420\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>an interview<\/a> on MSNBC\u2019s <em>The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle<\/em>, the outspoken Trump critic offered a rare defense of the former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-taking-regeneron-drug-remdesivir-therapy-for-coronavirus-diagnosis-ex-wh-doctor-explains\/\" title=\"Trump taking Regeneron drug, Remdesivir therapy for coronavirus diagnosis: ex-WH doctor explains\">president<\/a>, arguing that Biden should have pardoned him in the federal cases he faces.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) talks at the McCain Institute\u2019s Sedona Forum with Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Sedona, Arizona, Friday, May 3, 2024. (AP Photo\/Jake Bacon)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201c[Biden] should have fought like crazy to keep this prosecution from going forward,\u201d Romney said. \u201cIt was a win-win for Donald Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou may disagree with this, but had I been President Biden when the Justice Department brought on indictments, I would have immediately pardoned him. I\u2019d have pardoned President Trump,\u201d he added. \u201cWhy? Well, because it makes me, President Biden, the big guy and the person I pardoned a little guy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Romney believed there was precedent in this case from former President Lyndon B. Johnson, showing that Biden could have taken action to stop Trump\u2019s prosecution, even by urging New York prosecutors in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-big-problem-with-the-stormy-daniels-hush-money-case-against-trump\/\" title=\"The Big Problem With The Stormy Daniels Hush Money Case Against Trump\">hush money case<\/a> to drop the charges.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have been around for a while. If LBJ had been president and he didn\u2019t want something like this to happen, he\u2019d have been all over that prosecutor, saying, \u2018You better not bring that forward or I\u2019m gonna drive you out of office,\u2019\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Romney also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-in-congress-preparing-hearings-into-frenzied-afghanistan-exit\/\" title=\"Democrats In Congress Preparing Hearings Into Frenzied Afghanistan Exit\">offered criticism<\/a> of Republicans who have shown up to the courthouse in a show of solidarity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s a terrible fault for our country to see people attacking our legal system \u2014 that\u2019s an enormous mistake,\u201d he said. \u201cI think it\u2019s also demeaning for people to quite apparently try and run for vice president by donning a red tie and standing outside the courthouse. It\u2019s just \u2014 I\u2019d have felt awkward.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) criticized President Joe Biden for a significant mistake in failing to pardon former President Donald Trump. Speaking on MSNBC\u2019s The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle, the vocal Trump detractor surprisingly defended Trump, suggesting Biden should have granted him pardons for the federal charges he&#8217;s confronting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2653,"featured_media":2245590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/MixCollage-15-May-2024-09-19-PM-3931.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2245589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/MixCollage-15-May-2024-09-19-PM-3931.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2245589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2245590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2245589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2245589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2245589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}