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Tim Pawlenty: I think President Trump has de facto already been pardoned because those cases have imploded, but it would have been a…

On the recordDecember 1, 2024
I think President Trump has de facto already been pardoned because those cases have imploded, but it would have been a nice gesture, notwithstanding that if President Biden would have issued a pardon for President Trump, it would have been a great moment of unification.
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Tim Pawlenty

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Tim Pawlenty discusses the idea that President Trump has effectively been pardoned and suggests that a formal pardon from Biden would have been a unifying gesture.

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