"Trump's Potential Self-Pardon Sparks Controversy Among GOP"

Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, a 2024 GOP presidential candidate, anticipates that if former President Donald Trump is re-elected and convicted in the classified documents case, he will attempt to pardon himself. Trump faces 37 counts, including making false statements, conspiracy to obstruct, and willful retention of national defense information, stemming from more than 100 classified documents recovered from Mar-a-Lago last year. Hutchinson criticized Republican presidential candidates who have vowed to pardon Trump in the classified documents case if elected and decried allegations by the former president and his Republican allies that the Justice Department has been “weaponized.”