Obama's AG weighs in on whether Biden should pardon Trump

Former Attorney General Eric Holder weighed in on if President Biden or the 2024 presidential winner should potentially pardon former President Donald Trump if he is convicted of federal charges. 

"I think I'd I tell the president, the next attorney general, to let the system do its work. Try the cases, see what the results are. And then treat that convicted president, or anybody else who was convicted, as any other person," Holder, who served as AG under the Obama administration, said Sunday on CBS News' "Face the Nation."

Former President Donald Trump was indicted on federal charges last month related to alleged willful retention of national defense information, conspiracy to obstruct justice, and false statements. Trump pleaded not guilty and dismissed the charges as a "witch hunt." Trump also pleaded not guilty to state charges in New York in April over accusations of falsifying business records related to hush-money payments made during the 2016 election season. 

"Pardons generally are for people who express remorse and then who have done things that shows that they have turned their lives around," Holder continued. 

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"If those kinds of determinations can be made with regard to the former president, or anybody else who was convicted, yeah, I would support that. In the absence of something like that, I don't think that would be a wise thing to do," he concluded. 

Trump, the GOP front-runner for the 2024 election, and Republican allies have slammed the bevy of charges as the latest "witch hunt" leveled against him. 

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"The ridiculous and baseless indictment of me by the Biden administration's weaponized 'Department of Injustice' will go down as among the most horrific abuses of power in the history of our country," Trump said last month at the Georgia Republican Convention. "This vicious persecution is a travesty of justice."

"They've launched one witch hunt after another to try and stop our movement," he added. "They're not coming after me, they're coming after you."

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Other Republican candidates who have thrown their hats into the 2024 presidential ring have recently signaled they would likely pardon Trump if he is in fact convicted, and if they win the White House, including Nikki Haley, Vivek Ramaswamy and Larry Elder. Other GOP candidates have openly said they would likely not pardon Trump if they are elected, including Chris Christie, Will Hurd and Asa Hutchinson. 

In May, Biden laughed off a question from Fox News' Peter Doocy regarding whether he would potentially pardon the former president. 

Nikki Haley sounds the alarm on China's military growth, blasts Pentagon for 'gender pronoun classes'

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley warned of China's ramped up military aggression on Sunday, saying the country is ahead of the U.S. in key aspects.

The former South Carolina governor, appearing on "Fox News Sunday," blasted the Biden administration for prioritizing a woke agenda for the U.S. military even as China is "preparing for war." She argued that a responsible U.S. administration would work to counter China's growth both economically and militarily.

"China has been preparing for war with us for decades. And the way we have to deal with China is [to] not look at it tomorrow, because if we keep waiting to deal with them tomorrow, they will deal with us today," Haley told host Shannon Bream.

"If you look at the military situation, they now have the largest naval fleet in the world. They have 340 ships, we have 293. They're going to have 400 In two years, we won't even have 350 in two decades. They have started developing hypersonic missiles. We're just now getting started. They are modernizing their military, our military's taking gender pronoun classes," she continued. "Look at what they're doing on cyber, artificial intelligence, space – they're ahead of us."

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Haley has been a consistent voice in calling for the U.S. to address the Chinese threat more directly. The former U.N. ambassador gave a speech on the issue last week, saying China is the "most dangerous foreign threat we’ve faced since the Second World War."

She went on to detail China's economic aggression on American soil, saying she would put an end to China buying up U.S. farmland. She also said she would cut off normal economic ties with China in order to halt the flow of fentanyl across the U.S.-Mexico border if necessary.

"China is much more than a mere ‘competitor.’ Communist China is an enemy," she said. "We have to stop wasting time."

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Haley is currently polling at 3% in the 2024 Republican presidential primary, though she expressed confidence on Sunday that those numbers would change by the fall.

"We can look at past presidential elections and understand that national polls just don't matter right now," she said when Bream pressed her on the topic. "I mean, we've got a debate in August. We've got a debate in September. We've got a debate in October. I have qualified to be on the debate stage. Having been 3% in a five-way governor's race, I know that this is all about hard work."

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