Joe Biden’s Presidency has been completely tarnished.
Democrats and their media allies are no longer as willing to lie for him.
And Bill Clinton threw Joe Biden under the bus with one shocking confession.
Clinton attempts to save face
On his way out the door, Joe Biden set off a political grenade when he gave his son a blanket pardon spanning 11 years.
Many commentators tried to excuse the move by comparing Biden to Bill Clinton, who pardoned his half-brother Roger Clinton.
The former President finally spoke on the issue with CNBC personality Andrew Ross Sorkin during an interview at the 2024 Dealbook Summit.
Sorkin said, “I want to know what you actually think of the pardon, of Biden’s pardon for his son . . . This was not on my plan originally, but I thought — you know what? Everybody, we were out in that hallway, we’re all talking about that, and I said, ‘I’m going to ask the President first.’”
Clinton claimed that Hunter Biden’s pardon was justified.
He said, “Well, I think that the president did have reason to believe that the nature of the offenses involved were likely to produce far stronger adverse consequences for his son than they would for any normal person under the same circumstances.”
Clinton then brought up his half-brother.
“Someone said, ‘Well, this is just like when Bill Clinton pardoned his brother,’” Clinton stated. “Well, it’s not. My brother did 14 months in federal prison for something he did when he was 20.”
Clinton continued, “I supported it . . . He testified, told the truth about what he’d done when he had a drug problem and helped to bring down a larger enterprise. And then they sentenced him and he served 14 months and then he got out.”
Clinton said that the pardon of his brother helped him live a normal life instead of evading responsibility altogether.
Biden made a big mistake by lying about the pardon
Clinton said that Biden’s error was telling the public he would not pardon his son.
He said, “I wish he hadn’t said he wasn’t going to do it. I think it does weaken his case, and it makes people freer to dump on him . . . But there is also a reason that the Founding Fathers gave this pardon power to the President because all kinds of things are always happening that you can’t reconcile in terms of this, that and the other thing, and you can’t figure out how to solve it.”
Clinton also called for an end to the weaponization of the DOJ now that Donald Trump and the Republicans are returning to power.
He said, “Well, I do think we should stop trying to criminalize politics . . . both of them. And the people like it when they are not going along with it from Right to Left . . . On the other hand, you have to ask yourself, if you do this as a blanket thing, is there anything a President could do that he or she would someday get in trouble for?”
How convenient for Bill Clinton to want to extend the olive branch now that the Democrats are playing defense.
Informed American will keep you up-to-date on any developments to this ongoing story.
