As former President Donald Trump faces new allegations on his handling of classified documents, GOP presidential candidates differ on a potential pardon.
As former President Donald Trump took the stage Friday night at Iowa's GOP’s Lincoln Dinner a song that starts out with the lyrics, "One could end up going to prison, one just might be president" played.
GOP presidential candidates Nikki Haley and Asa Hutchinson disagree when it comes to talking about possibly pardoning formerHaley, the former U.N.
"We can't keep living with indictments and court cases and vengeance of the past," Haley continued."We've got to start going forward. American people are not talking about these indictments." Nikki Haley spoke about the possibility of pardoning former President Donald Trump while Asa Hutchinson said that such discussions during a presidential election were"inappropriate" and"premature."
In a separate interview on the same program, Hutchinson remarked that there shouldn’t be any discussion about pardons during a"You don’t put pardons out there to garner votes. That is premature," said the former governor, who has previously called on Trump to drop out of the race."I think that anybody who discusses pardons during a presidential campaign is not serving our system of justice well, and it’s inappropriate.
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