Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn said however be “happy to see” former CIA Director David Petraeus at the top of President Donald Trump’s directory of pardons.

“Well, I do believe Gen. Petraeus is usually an incredible patriot, and helped guide our country on a really hard amount of Iraq and basically pulled a rabbit from a hat there,” Cornyn (R-Texas) said within the interview Thursday morning on Hugh Hewitt’s show. “But he made a dreadful mistake. Things i respect about Gen. Petraeus is he admitted it candidly and publicly, and took responsibility for doing this. You don’t see that much in Washington.”

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Petraeus may be a retired four-star Army general merely appointed by George W. Bush in 2007 to have the war efforts in Iraq and rose to CIA director during Barack Obama’s presidency – attractive résumé data points that once made him a practical candidate to the presidency.

But in 2012, Petraeus resigned as CIA director after an FBI investigation uncovered emails between him and former military officer Paula Broadwell that indicated Petraeus was getting an extramarital affair with Broadwell, who also co-authored Petraeus’ biography.

The 2012 scandal was just a sluggish start a lawful battle that at some time threatened Petraeus with time in jail. It resulted in 2015 when he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor offense of mishandling classified materials related to giving Broadwell eight notebooks stuffed with highly sensitive information. He received probation in addition to a $100,000 fine.

Trump recently said he’s considering pardons for disgraced former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and television personality Martha Stewart. On Wednesday, after Kim Kardashian West lobbied him, obama commuted the sentence of Alice Marie Johnson – a 62-year-old great-grandmother who had previously been set to supply out an existence sentence without parole for your nonviolent drug offense.

He earlier pardoned conservative commentator Dinesh D’Souza, who pleaded guilty for making use of straw donors to make illegal contributions in a 2012 Senate race.

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