New York Governor Says Trump Needs to Show Remorse Before Considering Pardon

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said on Thursday that President-elect Donald Trump would need to show remorse before she considered pardoning him on the criminal conviction in the falsified business records case. “There is a pardoning process in the state of New York,” she said in a press conference. “It is lengthy. It requires a couple of elements. One is remorse.” On Monday, Manhattan Judge Juan Merchan refused to throw out the conviction, denying Trump’s legal argument that the prosecutor relied on evidence connected to Trump’s official actions when president. Trump’s legal team cited a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity from earlier this year. Former presidents have broad immunity from prosecution “for actions within his conclusive and preclusive constitutional authority,” Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in his opinion in July....