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On Sunday, Nikki Haley said she plans to pardon Donald Trump if she is elected to the White House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asked the question directly by an audience member at a Fox News town hall in South Carolina, where she once served as governor, Haley said <\/a>a pardon would be in the country\u2019s \u201cbest interest\u201d so Americans can work to \u201cleave the negativity behind\u201d without being further divided.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cIf you\u2019re talking about pardoning Trump, it\u2019s not a matter of innocence or guilt at that point, because that means he would have already been found guilty,\u201d Haley said at the town hall, hosted by John Roberts. \u201cI believe, in the best interest of bringing the country together, I would pardon Donald Trump. Because I think it\u2019s important for the country to move on.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got to leave the negativity and the baggage behind,\u201d she added. \u201cI don\u2019t want this country divided any further. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s in the best interests for America to have an 80-year-old president sitting in jail and having everybody upset about it. I think this would be the time that we would need to move forward and get this out of the way.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Trump currently faces four criminal indictments, including two on the federal level brought by special counsel Jack Smith<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In January, Haley said she would not consider a preemptive pardon for Trump but would issue a pardon if he were found guilty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think you only do it if someone\u2019s found guilty. So, you know, what I\u2019ll say is this is about moving the country forward, and the last thing we want to see is an 80-year-old former president sitting in jail,\u201d she said on Fox News<\/a> when asked if she would pledge to pardon Trump preemptively or only if he was found guilty. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cInstead, we want to say, \u2018OK, how do we put the past behind us and move forward as a country?\u2019 And I think that by pardoning him, that absolutely would move the country forward, instead of dividing it further. And so I think you always have to look at what\u2019s in the best interests of the country,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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