DeSantis Provides Answer If He Would Pardon Donald Trump

Megyn Kelly asked Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis if he would pardon Donald Trump if he became president.

“Would you commit to pardoning him on any federal charges against him?” Kelly asked DeSantis Friday on SiriusXM’s The Megyn Kelly Show.

DeSantis answered the question but used the opportunity to take a jab at President Trump.

“Well, what I’ve said is very simple. I’m going to do what’s right for the country. I don’t think it would be good for the country to have an almost 80-year-old former president go to prison,” DeSantis said.

“So that’s a yes?” Kelly asked for clarification.

“It just doesn’t seem like it would be a good thing. And I look at like, you know, Ford pardoned Nixon, took some heat for it, but at the end of the day, it’s like, do we wanna move forward as a country or do we want to be mired in these past controversies?” DeSantis added.

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“And I think the public wants a fresh start. I think they want somebody that’s gonna focus on their issues. We’ve had a lot that’s happened over the last five or six years, you know, I get that. But going forward, we’ve got all these issues that we’ve gotta deal with,” he continued.

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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 D.C. 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.”

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