In what can only be described as the unlikeliest scenario, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley declared that she would pardon former President Donald Trump if she was elected to the White House.
An undecided voter attending a Fox News town hall asked Haley on Sunday if she would pardon Trump if he were convicted in a federal court and she replied that it wouldn’t be “a matter of innocence or guilt.”
“If you’re talking about pardoning Trump, it’s not a matter of innocence or guilt at that point because that means he would have already been found guilty,” she said. “I believe in the best interest of bringing the country together I would pardon Donald Trump.”
Haley: I would pardon Donald Trump pic.twitter.com/h8lajrI84D
— Acyn (@Acyn) February 18, 2024
“Because I think it’s important for the country to move on,” she continued. “We’ve got to leave the negativity and the baggage behind. I don’t want this country divided any further. I don’t think it’s in the best interest for America to have an 80-year-old president sitting in jail and having everybody upset about it.
“I think this would be the time that we would need to move forward and get this out of the way.”
Haley remains the last holdout to Trump in the 2024 Republican primary and she trails Trump by large margins in the polls. It’s not imaginable that she can prevail at this point, so the hypothetical question is all but a moot point.
Not that social media users didn’t have a few thoughts on the matter… here’s a quick sampling of some of the responses to the story, as seen on X:
This is how you know she’ll endorse him. The guy who disparaged her husband’s military service. It’s coming and we will be ready with all the receipts when it does.
— Jo (@JoJoFromJerz) February 18, 2024
Well way to crumple like a sack after all that tough talk
— Bill DeMayo (@BDeMayo) February 18, 2024
I wouldn’t vote for her even if she was the only Republican on the ballot.
Trump could be out of the picture permanently, I’d still write him in instead.
— Festivus96 (@Festivus96) February 19, 2024
She’s playing her role she know what she’s doing
— Stiles Neyo (@NeyoStiles) February 19, 2024
Wonder how much she got paid to say that. Poor Nikki. Still “trying” to win.
— ZH (@zharr_1) February 19, 2024
Too bad she will never win. She can’t even beat “nobody”!!
— Sarah Smith (@Defundmedianow) February 19, 2024
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Tom Tillison grew up in Maryland before moving to Central Florida as a young teen. It is in the Sunshine State that he honed both his passion for politics and his writing skills. Tillison also contributes to BizPac Review.
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