2024 election: Joe Biden says he wouldn’t pardon Trump if he wins Election.

Joe Biden says, if re- elected president in November, he would not pardon Donald Trump or order the halt to any federal probes of Trump.

Donald Trump is heading towards a likely election rematch with Joe Biden in November, but this time around he’s juggling campaigning with some potentially explosive legal battles.

The 77-year-old, who is the first former president in US history to be criminally charged, now faces dozens of charges across four separate cases.

And his legal troubles don’t end there, as Mr Trump is also facing several civil cases relating to, among other things, the business empire that made his name. There are crucial legal appeals that are yet to be settled too, including one on whether he is immune from prosecution.

Should any possible charges come from those, or other, matters, Mr Biden said late Thursday he would not issue a pardon for Mr Trump.

“It is not something the president is entitled to do, to direct a prosecution or decide to drop a case. It’s a dereliction of duty,” Mr Biden told MSNBC.

“It’s hands off, completely,” the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee said, referring to any federal probes of MR Trump. “The attorney general is not the president’s lawyer. It’s the people’s lawyer. We never saw anything like the prostitution of that office like we see it today.”

That means Mr Biden would not follow an example set by Gerald Ford. The 38th president pardoned former President Richard Nixon in 1974 after the 37th president became the lone American chief executive to ever step down.