Opinion | Ford calling to Biden: President should consider pardoning Trump WashTimesOpEd
fading into retirement and obscurity. Eventually, the United States healed. By the time of the Reagan administration less than seven years later, we had entered a new and more optimistic era.
Perhaps President Biden should heed Ford’s example and give consideration to his courageous action in pardoning his predecessor. Just as the pardon ofwas difficult and very costly politically for Ford, any pardon by Mr. Biden of his predecessor would assuredly have very negative consequences for him personally. But it just might be the right thing to do.
at the time. Today, the consensus is different. The pardon now appears as an act of statesmanship and moral courage. Since Ford did not achieve much in his brief tenure as president and was generally considered intellectually unimpressive, indecisive and without any ideological mooring, the pardon stands out as one of his few notable acts.
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