‘No Moral Choice’: Dershowitz Says Biden ‘Must Pardon’ Jan. 6 Protesters After Granting Son Hunter Clemency

Noted attorney Alan Dershowitz said Monday that President Joe Biden had a moral obligation to pardon non-violent protesters charged in the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot after granting clemency to Hunter Biden.

Biden announced he pardoned his son in a statement released Sunday night, alleging Hunter Biden had been “singled out” and claiming that “political opponents” wanted to “break” both him and his son. Dershowitz said that Biden was correct that people were not “normally prosecuted” for lying about drug use when buying firearms but said that Biden had to address the disparate treatment of those involved in Black Lives Matter riots and the Capitol riot.

“Joe Biden was right when he said no reasonable person would disagree with the fact that if his name were not Biden, he would not have been prosecuted, so I 100% agree with Joe Biden’s decision to pardon,” Dershowitz said. “I don’t agree with this decision not to pardon, and I surely do not agree if he makes a decision not to pardon the January 6 people. He must pardon the January 6 people now.”

“He really has no moral choice, because these people were prosecuted not for what they did, but for who they are,” Dershowtiz said. “If they were Black Lives Matter people doing the same thing, they wouldn’t have been prosecuted. But they’re not. They’re Trump people. They’re MAGA people, and so they were prosecuted for doing exactly the same thing.”

The riots that took place during some of the Black Lives Matter protests following the death of George Floyd in police custody in May 2020 killed