Former Utah Sen. Mitt Romney tried to get President Joe Biden to pre-emptively pardon President Donald Trump to prevent future politically based prosecutions, he told CNN's Dana Bash on Monday evening. File Photo by Leigh Vogel/UPI | License PhotoSept. 30 (UPI) -- Former Sen. Mitt Romney urged advisers to former President Joe Biden to pre-emptively pardon President Donald Trump to prevent politically based prosecutions. "I called a member of the White House, one of the senior advisers to President Biden," Romney told Bash. "I said, 'If the Justice Department decides to indict PresidentTrump, I hope President Biden will immediately eliminate that and that he will provide a pardon immediately,'" Romney said. He said pardoning Trump would have sent a clear message that politically based prosecutions are unacceptable, but "they didn't do that."