Ron DeSantis floats ‘clemency’ for Donald Trump
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DeSantis would absolve his main 2024 GOP rival of federal crimes if elected.

Ron DeSantis is still willing to pardon Donald Trump for 37 counts involving charges of espionage and illegal document retention.

During an interview on the “700 Club” Friday, the 2024 Republican presidential candidate framed the potential pardons as a response to the so-called “weaponization” of the federal government.

“I’m going to end the weaponization. And part of ending the weaponization is, yes, we’re going to clean house,” DeSantis said, referring to sweeping changes at the FBI and Department of Justice.

“But part of it is using your Article 2 powers to redress wrongs, including, potentially, pardons. And so we said even before this happened with Trump, you know, we’ll have people who have been wronged before we come into office apply. We’re going to look if there is a different standard, we’re going to be very inclined to grant clemency in those situations.”

Previously, on an episode of “Clay and Buck,” DeSantis floated “Day 1” pardons of not only Trump, but the insurrectionists who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in an ill-fated attempt to stop the certification of the Presidential Election.

“The Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation have been weaponized. We see that in a variety of contexts,” DeSantis argued. “And so, what I’m going to do is, on Day 1, I will have folks that will get together and look at all these cases (where) people are victims of weaponization or political targeting and we will be aggressive at issuing pardons.”

The seeming concern for Trump’s legal woes notwithstanding, Trump promised earlier this week to “finish the task” and stay on the attack against the Florida Governor in the 2024 Primaries.

“Well, we’ve got to finish the task. We want to win, and we want to turn the country around. We want to make America great again,” Trump told Simon Conway on WHO Radio.

“So, we have one race right before us. Now that’s a Primary and then we have the General Election and we’re leading both by a lot and, someday maybe (we’ll) ease up a little bit,” Trump said cryptically.

A.G. Gancarski

A.G. Gancarski has been the Northeast Florida correspondent for Florida Politics since 2014. He writes for the New York Post and National Review also, with previous work in the American Conservative and Washington Times and a 15+ year run as a columnist in Folio Weekly. He can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter: @AGGancarski


14 comments

  • Jay Smif

    June 16, 2023 at 10:20 am

    Ah, “tough on crime” pudgy fascist DeSantis is willing to pardon the criminals that may ultimately help his failed campaign, but everyone else gets executed.

    Poor white trash, nothing more, nothing less.

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  • Michael K

    June 16, 2023 at 10:37 am

    Remember when Republicans professed to be the party of “law and order?” (Well, except for old rich Republican white men).

    Republicans have increased the prison population by 500% since 1970, but certain people are apparently above the law, most notably DJT. Like everything he touches, DeSantis is now out to destroy the Justice system.

  • Dr. Franklin Waters

    June 16, 2023 at 10:44 am

    Disqualifying.

  • PeterH

    June 16, 2023 at 11:34 am

    Republicans are incapable of learning from past mistakes!

  • Earl Pitts American

    June 16, 2023 at 12:13 pm

    Good afternoon Don,
    Dont worry if needed Ron will send me, Earl Pitts American, down to the prison to spring you out.
    We will stop by the Pizza Hut for Pizza and brewskies on the way back to Mara-Lago.
    Again dont worry we got you,
    Earl Pitts American

    • TJC

      June 16, 2023 at 12:52 pm

      Donald does not drink alcoholic beverages, Earl, so no brewskies for him. He’ll have a large creamy orange flavored shake. Make that two shakes. Oh heck, Earl, just shake the shit out of him. It might help.

      • Dont Say FLA

        June 18, 2023 at 1:24 pm

        TJC ain’t you see all the bill boards? “NEVER SHAKE A BABY”

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  • Jake

    June 16, 2023 at 3:33 pm

    Mansplain to me why this isn’t weaponized justice like the twit whines about?
    Oh yes, and the ProLife desantis killed his 8th death row victim yesterday.

  • LEE ROLLER

    June 17, 2023 at 10:26 am

    This delusional little high-heeled meatball is already measuring the Oval Office for curtains in his bizarro autocratic fantasy.

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    June 17, 2023 at 3:24 pm

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  • Lock Them Up

    June 18, 2023 at 1:28 pm

    Little Rhonda is going California where he just committed human trafficking, twice, with numerous humans per incident. Since Rhonda is really this stupid, let’s hope California locks them up. Rhonda’s felony count might even exceed The Donald’s, and Rhonda’s human trafficking offenses are much worse. Rhonda’s offensives are not just paperwork that could theoretically harm people. Rhonda directly harms real people. Every single time Rhonda trafficks in humans. Coyote Rhonda is not fit to be President. Coyotoe Rhonda is not fit to be Governor. Not even Governor of Florida. Shoot, not even Governor of Mississippi. Rhonda should be sent back to Guantanamo Bay where they belongs.

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