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Ari Fleischer, the former White House press secretary to George W. Bush, advised all Republican 2024 presidential hopefuls to commit to pardoning Donald Trump in the wake of his federal indictment over mishandling U.S. defense secrets, including information about nuclear programs.
“I think every wise Republican should make a pledge they would pardon Donald Trump,” Fleischer said Friday on Fox News, over a chyron reading: “Indictment: Trump suggested to his attorney to hide or destroy classified documents.”
Fleischer went on to spew a bunch of lies about Trump’s grossly negligent handling of the nation’s nuclear secrets somehow approximating Hillary Clinton’s mishandling of classified emails, for which (pesky fact) no criminal wrongdoing was found.
But Fleischer was literally advising 2024 GOP hopefuls to make the pledge as a matter of smart electoral politics. In effect: Pardon Trump because Hillary.
