CNN Historian Says Biden’s Pardon Of Hunter ‘Helps Justify’ Trump Potentially Pardoning J6 Protesters

CNN Historian Says Biden’s Pardon Of Hunter ‘Helps Justify’ Trump Potentially Pardoning J6 Protesters
CNN Historian Says Biden Pardoning Hunter ‘Helps Justify’ Trump’s Potential Move To Pardon J6 Protesters

CNN presidential historian Tim Naftali said Monday that President Joe Biden’s pardon of his son Hunter Biden “helps justify” President-elect Donald Trump’s anticipated pardon of Jan. 6, 2021 protesters.

Following the president’s Sunday move to pardon his son, Trump asked on Truth Social if it would “include the J-6 Hostages, who have now been imprisoned for years,” calling their imprisonment “an abuse and miscarriage of Justice!” Naftali, on “CNN Newsroom with Pamela Brown,” argued that the president’s pardon makes it more plausible for Trump to follow through on his pledge to pardon Jan. 6 protesters.

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“The scope of the pardon covers activities, for which there are — by the way, there’s no evidence that any wrongdoing was done by either President Biden or his son. But the scope covers a period that President-elect Trump and his supporters have been focused on, indeed, use that period as a reason for disrupting our relations with Ukraine,” Naftali said. “And that of course, led to the first impeachment of President Trump.”