Opinion by Jason Willick: If a GOP candidate other than the former president wins the nomination, Trump will want to work hard to support the ticket, setting himself up for a pardon.
to pardon him if elected. Expect more candidates to give similar answers as the primary season goes on.As a matter of coalition management, a Republican president in 2025 would have every reason to intervene in Trump’s prosecution — either by appointing an attorney general who would drop or narrow the case, or by issuing a pardon or commuting Trump’s sentence if he is convicted.
Trump now has a real personal interest — his own liberty — in ensuring that a Republican wins next year’s election, even if it’s not him. That will bind him to any Republican nominee in a way that he might not have been before this federal indictment. Commentators have usefully separated the indictment’s legal from its political strength. But the two aren’t entirely separate: Politics is, among other things, the process of creating and executing the country’s laws. The legal and political spheres intersect in the executive branch, especially in the president’s power to issue clemency — overriding convictions or sentences duly imposed by the legal system.
But in the event that one of them succeeds, the indictment will play a different political role in the general election. By putting at risk something even more fundamental than his status and ego, Trump’s prosecution would force his loyalty to a new standard-bearer for the GOP.
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