New Hampshire Republican Gov. Chris Sununu gave some of the most spineless answers yet on whether Trump should be immune from prosecution and on Nikki Haley and her fellow GOP Republican candidates saying they'd pardon Trump if they're elected president.
December 31, 2023

New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu gave some of the most spineless answers yet on whether Trump should be immune from prosecution and on Nikki Haley and her fellow GOP Republican candidates saying they'd pardon Trump if they're elected president.

Sununu made an appearance on this Sunday's State of the Union on CNN and was asked about Jack Smith's recent filing pushing back against Trump's claim that as a former president, he has prosecutorial immunity, and whether he believed Trump should be granted immunity from any potential crimes. Here's Sununu's non-response.

SUNUNU: I'm not a lawyer. I don't know. I really don't. You know, when you're... I'll say this, on the political side of all of this, I've always said that most of America can't follow it. They're not following it, they can't keep case of this case versus that case, Georgia versus the federal cases.

So, I'm looking at the politics of this and how, again, as you brought up that Trump will play the victimization card a little more. So, I'm not a lawyer. I can't tell you exactly where that's going to go, but I can tell you, at the end of the day, as far as the Republican party, they're not looking at it. They're not looking at the cases right now. They're not looking at the January 6th, the election denial. They're really looking at what moves America forward.

So, we'll see where it all goes, but at the end of the day, I don't think it's going to have an impact on the Republican primary.

Of course it doesn't matter to Republican primary voters, because they're in a cult that doesn't believe any of it, or doesn't care because they're being propagandized constantly by right wing media telling them Trump did nothing wrong and this is all just some liberal plot to keep him from being president again.

Next up, Bash asked him about Haley and the pardon promises.

BASH: Nikki Haley, who, as you reminded us you are backing, said this week that she would pardon Donald Trump if she's elected and of course, if she needs to and he's convicted of any crimes. Ron DeSantis made the same promise. When I asked you about potential pardons for January 6th rioters last year, you told me that you oppose that because everybody needs to be held fairly accountable and that there is a rule of law. Would you be okay with a pardon for Donald Trump?

SUNUNU: Yeah, look, I understand Nikki's argument, in that look everybody wants to move on from the drama and chaos of Donald Trump. We're all so tired of it. We're all so worn out of it, as Americans. So the idea that, look, having a former president sitting in jail, just allows the drama and the victimization to go on, the divide of the country to go on.

So, again, just speaking to her answer, is that, look it's a way to kind of move on from it all, right? To just make the pardon happen, move on from it all, so the country can heal itself. And I think there's a lot of validity to that, to be sure. Yeah.

BASH: So you think because he is a politician, he should be treated differently with regard to a pardon than the people who are actually already in jail, who are at the capitol.

SUNUNU: No, not because he's a politician. I think, look, when you look at pardons as a governor, as a president, when you look at pardons, you pardon people for a whole variety of different reasons, potentially. And I think Nikki's answer on that is, look, there's a huge help to healing the country in terms of putting this thing behind us and not letting him be that divider that he continues to be, that he wants to be, that keeps him in the headlines.

That's the same crap we were fed about the Nixon pardon. Let's "heal the country." All it does is encourage more law breaking. And I'll be happy if Trump is still in the headlines if those headlines say he's going to prison.

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