CNN Host Says Dems Tell Her Biden Family Pardons Will Make It ‘Harder To Criticize’ Trump Pardons

CNN anchor Kasie Hunt reported Monday that Democrats believe it will be more difficult to criticize President Donald Trump for any pardons he may issue after former President Joe Biden preemptively granted several of his family members clemency on his last day in office.

Biden issued preemptive pardons for his brothers Frank and James, James’ wife Sara Biden, his sister Valerie Owens and her husband, John Owens as one of his last moves as president. Hunt, during CNN’s cov

erage of Trump’s inauguration, said Democrats are reeling from Biden’s pardons of his family members, noting that they already believed that the December pardon of his son Hunter had weakened their ability to attack Trump’s anticipated pardons of Jan. 6 rioters.

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“The politics here are such — and I’ve heard from a number of sources today — Democrats are quite frankly surprised, flabbergasted, blown away by the preemptive pardons of his family members that we saw come out at the very end right before Donald Trump was about to be sworn in and Joe Biden was going to lose that pardon power,” Hunt said. “The Hunter Biden pardon, many of my sources felt, already made it easier, less politically painful for Donald Trump to pardon all of these January 6th rioters, to use that pardon power in a way that could hurt him.”