Haley says she would pardon Trump if convicted: 'Time to move forward'

GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley said Sunday she would pardon former President Trump if he is convicted of a federal crime, saying it was time "to move forward."

"I would pardon Donald Trump because I think it's important for the country to move on," Haley said during a Fox News town hall in South Carolina. "We've got to leave the negativity… behind."

Trump, the current GOP frontrunner, is facing multiple legal hurdles, with the most recent development out of his New York civil fraud case being he was barred from operating his business in New York and fined more than $350 million.

Last week, Trump asked the Supreme Court to extend the delay in the trial stemming from Special Counsel Jack Smith’s 2020 election interference case, arguing that he has presidential immunity to protect him from prosecution. His attorneys filed the emergency appeal days after a D.C. appeals court ruled he is not immune from prosecution in Smith's case.

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Haley stated she no longer wished for division in the country, and it would not be "in the best interest for America to have an 80-year-old president sitting in jail and having everybody upset about it."

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"I think this would be the time that we would need to move forward and get this out of the way," Haley said.

Haley took several digs at both Trump and the Republican Party during her town hall appearance, while continuing to tout her platform.

"I look at where we started, there were 14 candidates in the race," Haley said. "We've defeated a dozen fellas. I just have one more fellow to catch up to. And