GOP Gov: Biden Weighed Trump Pardon in Jill Pillow Talk
Cox said Biden seemed open to the idea, but no pardon was issued, and the episode appears in a book due out next month.
- On Thursday, The Atlantic detailed Republican Utah Gov. Spencer Cox's revelation that he urged President Joe Biden to pardon Donald Trump in August 2023 to reduce partisan tensions.
- Cox pitched the idea while riding in a presidential limousine through Salt Lake City, where Biden revealed he and Jill had already 'had a long conversation about it.'
- The governor also wrote to Trump urging 'unity over retaliation' while partnering with Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro to advocate for reduced rhetoric in Washington, D.C.
- Ultimately, the pardon never came, and Cox wrote in Off Ramp: How to Be a Peacemaker in an Age of Contempt that neither experience turned out 'quite the way I'd hoped.'
- Cox launched the 'Disagree Better' initiative to foster healthy debate, research that became 'painfully pertinent' after conservative activist Charlie Kirk's assassination in Utah in September 2025.
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Joe Biden considered pardoning Trump during pillow talk with Jill, GOP governor says
"You know, I’ve actually considered this for a while. In fact, just this week as we were lying in bed, Jill and I had a long conversation about it,” Biden reportedly said about a possible Trump pardon.
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