While Gov. Ron DeSantis's campaign for the GOP nomination for President is floundering, he suggested to Outkick's Clay Travis that he would pardon Trump "to bring the country together," and of course, that would have the opposite outcome. DeSantis cited Ford pardoning Nixon, which was a huge mistake because that's how we ended up with Lumpy, who thinks he's above the law. Ford should have made an example of Nixon so that no president goes down that path again. And here we are. Trump's crimes are worse.
"I mean, with respect to like, you know, do we really think it's good for the country to have an almost 80-year-old former president in prison, like, is that is that going to be good for us to come together?" he asked. "Yeah, you know, that's the thing."
Yes, you big dummy. Law and order don't have an expiration date.
"It's like, you know, there's divisions in this society, but there is some opportunity, I think, to come together on some things," he continued. "But it's like when all this is going on, that makes it very difficult."
"So you know, I look back at like, like Nixon pardoning Ford," DeSantis said. "He took a lot of heat for it, but I think it was the right decision to just move the country beyond that."
"And you know, they could have tried to get a pound of flesh out of Nixon, and it wasn't that Nixon was above the law," he continued. "It was just weighing how does that, you know, provide fissures to society."
