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Minnesota Democrat Dean Phillips calls on New York governor to pardon Trump

A man in a suit in front of a US flag speaks into a mic.
Dean Phillips in January 2024 campaigning for his ultimately unsuccessful bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. Photograph: Charles Krupa/AP

The outgoing Democratic US representative who failed in his presidential primary challenge against Joe Biden called on the New York governor, Kathy Hochul, to pardon Donald Trump over his criminal conviction for hush-money payments to influence the 2016 election “for the good of the country”.

Minnesota representative Dean Phillips, who was the first Democrat to call on fellow party member Henry Cuellar to resign following bribery charges against the Texas representative, urged for the pardon on Friday in a post on X.

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