Mitt Romney Says Biden Should Have ‘Immediately Pardoned’ Trump

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) claimed on Wednesday that if he were in President Joe Biden’s shoes, he would have “immediately pardoned” former President Donald Trump.

During a discussion with MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle about Trump’s ongoing hush money trial in New York, Romney said, “I think President Biden made an enormous error. He should have fought like crazy to keep this prosecution from going forward. It was a win-win for Donald Trump.”

After Ruhle questioned, “Is that Joe Biden’s job?” Romney replied, “I’ve been around for a while. If LBJ had been president and he didn’t want something like this to happen, he’d have been all over that prosecutor saying, ‘You better not bring that forward or I’m gonna drive you out of office.'”

“But I’m pretty sure you support having separate but equal branches of government,” said Ruhle.

“I do,” replied Romney, before adding:

Had I been President Biden when the Justice Department brought an indictment, I would have immediately pardoned him. I’d have pardoned President Trump. Why? Because it makes me, President Biden, the big guy and the person I pardoned the little guy. And number two, it’s not gonna get resolved before the election, it’s not gonna have an impact before the election, and frankly the country doesn’t want to have to go through prosecuting a former president.

I think the American people have recognized that President Trump did have an inappropriate affair with someone who is a porn star. I think they realize that. I think they realize that he took classified documents he shouldn’t have and didn’t handle them properly. I think they understand that as well. I think they realize that he’s been lying about the election in 2020. They know those things, so these things are not changing the public attitude, and frankly we ought to get beyond these and focus on the big issues that really matter to the American people: our inflation, our border, what’s happening around the world.

On Wednesday, Romney also took aim at fellow Republicans for making speeches outside the courthouse and “prostrating themselves” in an attempt to win favor with the former president.

“There’s a level of dignity and decorum that you expect the people who are running for the highest station in the land,” Romney told CNN’s Manu Raju. “And going out and prostrating themselves in front of the public to try and, apparently, curry favor with the person who’s our nominee is embarrassing.”

Watch above via MSNBC.