CNN senior political commentator Scott Jennings said Monday that President Joe Biden will be remembered as a “complete and total disgrace” over his decision to pardon his son, Hunter Biden.
Biden issued a formal pardon for his son Sunday evening after the White House assured the American public for months that he would not do so. Jennings argued that this action made the “strongest possible case for [President-elect] Donald Trump” by proving that the president blatantly lied to the American people only to ultimately protect his son in the end.
“Joe Biden is leaving office making the strongest possible case for Donald Trump that anybody could possibly make it and that’s that our government and our justice system is of, by and for the elites and nobody else,” Jennings said. “He ran to vanish Trumpism from our political system in this country and he has left it politically and now institutionally the strongest possible political force in this country. It is a complete and utter failure by the head of the Democratic Party and the President of the United States. Never again do I want to hear ‘oh, Donald Trump’s a liar, you can’t believe anything he says. Donald Trump will abuse his power, Donald Trump will only use the system to benefit himself and his family’ and so on and so forth … We are sitting on the biggest cover-up of who knows what crimes and Joe Biden amazingly knows exactly, roughly when it started.”
“He knows just about when it all started. He’s leaving office in complete and total disgrace, he is a liar and there is no other way to spin this today. This has nothing to do with Trump and everything to do with the character of Joe Biden.”
A jury convicted the president’s son in June on three felony charges related to his purchase of a Colt Cobra revolver in October 2018, alleging he knowingly bought the item while addicted to drugs and made false statements on the purchase form. He also faced nine charges related to his alleged failure to pay at least $1.4 million in taxes and his alleged filing of falsified tax paperwork, all of which Hunter pleaded guilty to.
In his statement announcing the pardoning, Biden said he has always emphasized telling Americans the truth and that he believes the charges against his son “led to a miscarriage of justice.”
“For my entire career I have followed a simple principle: just tell the American people the truth. They’ll be fair-minded. Here’s the truth: I believe in the justice system, but as I have wrestled with this, I also believe raw politics has infected this process and it led to a miscarriage of justice — and once I made this decision this weekend, there was no sense in delaying it further. I hope Americans will understand why a father and a President would come to this decision,” Biden said in his statement.
Biden and White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre have repeatedly said the president would not pardon Hunter. The press secretary made these claims during press briefings dating back to as early as July, and even claimed Biden would not ask President-elect Donald Trump to pardon his son in November.
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