Him being a Democrat and the long list of horribleness followed by 'he should be pardoned' is why I initially assumed it was sarcasm.
Apparently Phillips is just a moron.
“You think pardoning is stupid?” Phillips, also a former presidential candidate, said in a Saturday post on X. “Making him a martyr over a payment to a porn star is stupid. (Election charges are entirely different.) It’s energizing his base, generating record sums of campaign cash, and will likely result in an electoral boost.”