Former President Donald Trump's legal woes have been one of the most discussed topics on the campaign trail, especially as some Republican presidential candidates pressure their primary opponents to pledge to pardon the GOP front-runner, if they're elected.
Trump faces 40 counts in the Department of Justice's classified documents case against him, which special counsel Jack Smith said in May were related to"felony violations of our national security laws as well as participating in a conspiracy to obstruct justice.”Smith is separately investigating the former president over his handling of his 2020 election loss, and is reported to be considering charges in that case.
Ramaswamy has continued to stand by the pledge to pardon Trump, despite so few of his GOP competitors following suit. "That should not be any discussion during a presidential campaign. You don't put pardons out there to garner votes," he said."Anybody who promises pardons during a presidential campaign is not serving our system of justice well, and it's inappropriate."
"I think that one of the things we have to look at is not what's in the best interest of the president, but what's in the best interest of the country. We have to move forward," Haley said."We've got to quit living in the past, and I don't want there to be all of this division over the fact that we have a president serving years in jail over a documents trial."
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