Mitt Romney reveals he personally urged Biden administration to preemptively pardon Donald Trump

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney revealed Monday night that he called the White House during the Biden administration when Special Counsel Jack Smith was investigating Donald Trump to urge President Joe Biden to preemptively pardon him.

“I called a member of the White House, one of the senior advisers to President Biden. And I said, if the Justice Department decides to indict President Trump, I hope President Biden will immediately eliminate that, and that he will provide a pardon immediately. Why? Number one, I don’t want the anger and the hate and the vitriol. But number two: We just can’t begin to be prosecuting political opponents,” Romney said during a conversation with CNN’s Dana Bash at an event hosted by Drew University in Morristown, New Jersey.

“Pardoning at that point would have been a way to make that very clear,” added Romney.

“What did they say back to you?” asked Bash.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/mitt-romney-reveals-personally-urged-050939987.html

I'm glad they didn't

[Pachamama]

1. Sounds like Mittens is hoping he isn't on Trumps Retribution List and if so he can get some amnesty

Another coward

[travelingthrulife]

2. Another Christian Nationalist

[Irish_Dem]

3. Yes by all means pardon traitors and child rapists.

And those destroying our country.

Damn cowards, all of them.

[ImNotGod]

4. yadda, yadda, yadda, it would have just embolden the fascists more, shut your yap rummy, we don't care what you said. nt

[Renew Deal]

5. It would have been wrong for the country and politically fatal for Biden

It would make it seem like there are no consequences for political corruption, and especially a coup attempt where they wanted to kill the VP.

[Ocelot II]

6. Ford's pardoning of Nixon was outrageous enough, and led to the mess we have now.

It also cost Ford the 1976 election. It would have been absolutely insane for Biden to pardon Trump, who is exponentially worse than Nixon, and would have destroyed Biden's reputation and legacy for all eternity.

[themaguffin]

7. That pardon is a significant part of the path that got us here.

[exboyfil]

20. And Nixon was done as President

He served over half of his second term.

[UpInArms]

8. Gerald Ford is saving a space beside him in hell

just for you, Mittens

[BannonsLiver]

9. "Peace in our time."

Appeasement doesn’t work with bullies, Willard.

[Blues Heron]

10. Fucken mittens what a 5 star creep. It should be the opposite punish the highest ranks harder to make point.

What you don’t do is let them off the hook, that’s puke fucking values, dirty fucking puke values. The dregs of humanity, with a fucking haircut and suit.

[sheshe2]

11. Fuck Romney.

He sucked as our Gov. Sucked as a Prez Candidate, sucked as a Senator and he sucked as a dog owner!

The story of Mitt Romney’s dog keeps rearing its ugly head. Now video has emerged of the 1983 incident in which Romney put his dog in a crate and tied it to the roof of his car for a 12-hour journey to Canada.

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The story of Mitt Romney’s dog keeps rearing its ugly head. Now video has emerged of the 1983 incident in which Romney put his dog in a crate and tied it to the roof of his car for a 12-hour journey to Canada.

https://www.businessinsider.com/we-have-video-of-mitt-romney-tying-his-dog-to-the-roof-of-his-car-2012-2

[TommyT139]

16. I agree with most of that, although...

Romney setting up MassHealth was somewhat of a model for the Affordable Care Act.

He still goes to Hell for abusing his dog, though. Animal abuse deserves the death penalty.

[Baitball Blogger]

12. Idiot. None of you entitled white guys ever learn from your mistakes.

You all just double down on your bad behavior and enhance our suffering as a nation.

[Silent Type]

13. Considering all the indictments, trials, convictions, etc., pursuing trump didn't help us. Think both Biden and Garland

knew it would be a chitshow.

[SunSeeker]

19. Prosecution was the right thing to do. We have never had a President try to violently overturn an election, on TV.

Sadly, the Supreme Court delayed the cases and gave Trump immunity, sabotaging the prosecution. There should have been a trial and it should have been televised.

[Silent Type]

22. Unfortunately, didn't work for us, unless you believe trump would have won by 10 points without the indictments, etc.

[Wiz Imp]

35. Ridiculous. Trump won the Popular vote by just 1.5%

So realistically, you only need to think he would have won by 1.6% or more if not for the indictments. And it is not unreasonable to believe that at all.

[Silent Type]

36. Also ridiculous.

[SunSeeker]

39. Not being able to complete those prosecutions is what cost us.

That and 49.5% of Americans couldn't bring themselves to vote for a woman of color.

[Silent Type]

40. Relying on courts to determine election by convicting trump is the mistake, IMO.

[SunSeeker]

41. We were not using courts to "determine an election." We were trying to convict a criminal.

Please take your right wing talking points elsewhere.

[Silent Type]

44. Sorry, we thought he would be eliminated by courts. The right wing talk is trying to convince people

we didn’t lose. Biden and Garland were likely right.

[SunSeeker]

45. We thought he would be eliminated by the truth. Lies (and sexism and racism) won.

Pushing the lie that Trump’s prosecutions were political is right wing talk.

[Silent Type]

47. Tough for some to accept truth. Hope we don't run on retribution and payback because we'll lose again.

[SunSeeker]

49. Running on retribution worked for Trump.

But we will not run on retribution and never have. Democrats run to make life better for the American people, not for personal vendettas.

[Silent Type]

50. OK. Still hope we don't run on retribution just because it worked for trump.

[SunSeeker]

54. Your hope will be fulfilled. We don't run on retribution. We will run on restoring the economy & rule of law. nt

[AZProgressive]

48. Trump broke the law

I don't think elections should have anything to do whether Trump or anyone commits a crime. If it comes to anyone else a jury may not find a person guilty the prosecutor should pursue charges if they have enough evidence. Same with Trump but with Trump he would have at least been found guilty in the federal cases. Don't know enough about the Georgia case but the grand jury in Arizona wanted to indict Trump but the prosecutors there begged them not to which I think was a mistake.

Those outside of the swing states may not care much about Trump's crimes or maybe even people in swing states don't care that much but the Republicans contested Arizona's electoral votes for Biden at the moment the Jan 6 rioters entered the Capitol.

I think the mistake was not electing Harris so the cases against Trump could move forward and he would have likely received guilty verdicts.

[RobinA]

43. Those Prosecutions

were never going to be completed before the election. Law doesn't work that fast.

I agree with Romney and I agreed with Ford. Get those turds off the stage where they can't do much damage. We may have gotten away without the Presidential immunity bestowed by the supreme court.

[SunSeeker]

46. Pardoning Trump would NOT have gotten him "off the stage."

It would have been seen as an admission that they were political prosecutions. Trump would have won by even more than he did.

[RANDYWILDMAN]

14. Really Mittens ??? really you coward

and this guy was the Repub nominee (which tells you everything about the Party of orange menace )

Why don't you go appease at a Trump rally and see how far that gets you

[Raven123]

15. Rather naive to think a pardon would have dissipated the anger

[progressoid]

17. Romney, is living in the delusion of a government of genteel statesmen.

[yardwork]

18. Trump committed numerous crimes.

It wasn't a politically motivated prosecution.

Romney is useless.

[badhair77]

21. Does he really think a pardon would have stopped

trump from going after his enemies? Not likely. Seems like he’s providing cover for himself.

[rzemanfl]

23. Magical underwear madness. n/t

[MayReasonRule]

24. Akin To Charlie Kirk, Mitt Romney Is A Massive Piece Of Shit Y'all, Don't Let Anyone Tell Ya' Different!

[JI7]

25. What does he have to say about Comey ?

We just can’t begin to be prosecuting political opponents,” Romney said 

[Aristus]

26. Of course.

The billionaire assholes are going to hand-job each other. No surprise there.

I would have thought a Mormon might at least have done a head-fake in the direction of decency. But I guess not.

[hamsterjill]

27. Not good enough.

This is not a situation where Biden would have been prosecuting a political opponent. This was a situation where a person in power used that power to try to overthrow the government. That is treason. Trump should have been held fully accountable then and he still needs to be held accountable now.

[kimbutgar]

28. Is he angling for a job in the orange turd administration ?

Talk about brown nosing!

[C_U_L8R]

29. Why? ' Because I'm a coward' he says.

Mitt Milquetoast.

[SamKnause]

30. Fuck off !!! We are suppose to be a country of laws.

[Wednesdays]

31. "Country of Laws" for the common folk

For the rich elite, not so much.

[Botany]

32. Attn Mitt

We executed 2 people who did what Trump did with those documents (the Rosenbergs) and
a former FBI agent called Robert Hansen just died in the U.S. super max prison in Colorado
for doing what Trump did.

*************

https://thiswillhold.substack.com/p/she-won-part-ii-seven-judges-direct

Just seven days after Trump lost the 2020 election to President Joe Biden, the Senate rammed through Judge Aileen Cannon—a Federalist Society loyalist—to the federal bench, again via the nuclear option. The seat? It would later oversee Trump’s classified documents case.

Think about that. Before he even walked out of the White House with stolen materials and a failed insurrection attempt, Donald Trump had already secured the judge who would protect him. He wasn't just breaking the law—he was fortifying his legal escape route in advance, with an assist from Senate Republicans.

[twodogsbarking]

33. Stepford Republican.

[swong19104]

34. We shouldn't have pardoned Nixon.

And we’re sure as fuck shouldn’t pardon Trump. The whole lot of the GOP should take their last breaths at the gallows, including Romney. Traitors all.

[Wiz Imp]

37. I don't know what Romney's motive is for publicly revealing it now.

I'm pretty sure he's not really stupid enough to believe what he said. It's obvious to even most MAGAs (who are dumb as rocks) that Trump was going to go after his perceived enemies whether he was pardoned or not.

[Paladin]

38. Fuck yourself, Romney.

And profound thanks to the Biden team, for rejecting this idiocy. The last thing in the world that trump is worthy of is softer treatment.

[tanyev]

42. Trump was prosecuted for breaking MANY, MANY laws, Mitt, not for political opposition.

Throwing in the towel on that White Horse prophecy of saving the nation, Mitt?

[mercuryblues]

51. I wonder if the Mormon Church attack

by a MagaT has him running scared of retribution from the pumpkin head's cult members.

[nilram]

52. If that would have kept him from running for president, ok.

But there would have been no way to know that.

[flvegan]

53. Maybe Romney is in the Epstein Files, then. Would make sense.

I'm not accusing, I'm just asking questions here.

[3catwoman3]

55. I think I'd be keeping that to myself, Mitt.

[Buckeyeblue]

56. Indictments followed by pardons could have neutered Trump

Biden could have explained to the American people what Trump did, what the evidence was and then issued a pardon. He could have said he was doing it to heal the country.

Would it have made any difference? I don't know.

A bigger difference maker would have been for Biden to have announced that he wasn't running for a second term in the fall of 2023. But we've been through that.

[Vinca]

57. Romney's trying to stay out of Trump's line of fire. He'd like to see Trump in jail as much as we would.