Former Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) said on Monday he tried to get the Biden administration to issue a preemptive pardon to President Trump during the investigation into Trump’s efforts to stay in power after losing the 2020 election.

“I called a member of the White House, one of the senior advisers to President Biden. And I said, ‘If the Justice Department decides to indict President Trump, I hope President Biden will immediately eliminate that, and that he will provide a pardon immediately,’” Romney, a former GOP presidential nominee and Massachusetts governor, told CNN’s Dana Bash at an event at Drew University in New Jersey.

Romney said he feared the possibility of prosecuting political opponents.

“Why?” Romney continued. “Number one, I don’t want the anger and the hate and the vitriol

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