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Martin Pengelly in Washington

Biden should have pardoned Trump on federal charges, Mitt Romney says

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Mitt Romney at the Capitol in Washington, earlier in May. Photograph: Graeme Sloan/Sipa US/Alamy

Joe Biden should have pardoned Donald Trump on all federal criminal charges the moment they were announced, the Utah senator and former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said.

“Had I been President Biden,” Romney said, “when the justice department brought out indictments, I would have immediately pardoned him. I’d have pardoned President Trump.”

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