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DeSantis: I'd Pardon Trump, Country Wants 'Fresh Start'

By Eric Bolling Staff

(Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

During an interview airing on Friday, Florida Governor and 2024 presidential candidate Ron DeSantis was asked about former President Donald Trump’s ongoing legal battles with Biden’s DOJ.

DeSantis says he’d pardon Trump if he were to get convicted.

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“I don’t think it would be good for the country to have an almost 80-year-old former president go to prison,” DeSantis told Megyn Kelly for an interview airing Friday.

“I’m going to do what’s right for the country,” DeSantis also told her. “I think the country wants a fresh start.”

From Newsmax:

He pointed out that former President Gerald Ford “took some heat” for pardoning Richard Nixon, but “at the end of the day, do we want to move forward as a country or do we want to be mired in these past controversies?”

DeSantis added that he thinks Americans want someone who will focus on their issues, but said that “we will wield the pardon power if normal Americans have been targeted unfairly” and if a “separate standard of justice has been applied.”

“The flip side of that is people that are connected to the swamp are going to be held accountable,” he said. “They are not going to get a lower standard of justice.”

Trump has already been indicted in New York and Florida and faces potential indictments in Washington, D.C., and Atlanta, and DeSantis noted the “very liberal jury pool” hearing cases in the nation’s capital.

“One of the things I want to do is work with Congress, is to give Americans the right to remove a case, if they’re charged in DC federally, remove it to their home judicial district because I think you’ll get a fairer jury pool,” DeSantis said. “That’s a 95 percent very liberal jury pool, and in a politically charged case, I don’t think it’s going to be fair, and that’s an imbalance we have where the swamp protects its own. So people are effectively immune because they can be acquitted in front of that jury, but then if you’re challenging that swamp, man, they will nail you to the wall.”

DeSantis is currently polling in second place in the GOP primary field but is 30-40 points by GOP frontrunner Donald Trump.



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