“The View” co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin visibly irked the fellow panelists Tuesday as she argued former President Joe Biden’s last-minute pardons for his family “set a dangerous precedent.”
With minutes left in his presidency, Biden issued a pardon for five of his family members before President Donald Trump took the oath of office in the Capitol Rotunda on Monday. Griffin’s fellow co-hosts claimed that the now-former president took this action to protect his family from a so-called “dangerous man.”
“My fear is the precedent set, because I think Biden holds himself on this certain moral high ground and he is setting a very dangerous precedent,” Griffin said.
“Against a very dangerous man,” co-host Sunny Hostin interrupted.
“Yes, that’s going to allow that man to basically give blanket pardons to anyone who commits a crime,” Griffin continued.
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Hostin and co-host Ana Navarro both argued that Trump would have issued blanket pardons to any of his allies regardless of whether Biden had pardoned his family. Griffin said the pardons were too broad, as Trump has never publicly discussed prosecuting many of the pardoned members of his predecessor’s family.
“I’ve never heard Donald Trump say Valerie Biden’s name. This feels way too sweeping to me,” Griffin said. “Hunter, I think you could debate was he going to target him, was he not. This is the spouses [and] the brothers.”
“Oh, I think he’s vengeful enough to do that,” Hostin interjected.
Biden pardoned his brothers, Frank and James, his sister Valerie as well as his in-laws, Sara Biden and John Owens. James was connected to the former president’s son, Hunter, and his overseas business dealings with the now-defunct energy company, Burisma, while Frank used his brother’s 2021 inauguration to promote his Florida law firm in connection with a lawsuit against sugar farmers.
The now-former president pardoned Hunter in December from any potential crime committed between Jan. 1, 2014, and Dec. 1, 2024. A Delaware jury convicted Hunter in June for unlawfully purchasing a gun while addicted to drugs and lying on his purchase form. Hunter also faced nine tax charges in California for allegedly failing to pay $1.4 million in taxes between 2016 and 2019.
Hours before leaving office, Biden further pardoned former senior White House medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci, retired Gen. Mark Milley and members of the January 6 Select Committee. He also commuted the sentences of 2,500 individuals convicted of violent crimes, including two men whose actions led to the death of a police officer, on Friday.
Trump signed an executive order Monday night issuing “full, complete and unconditional pardons” for an estimated 1,500 defendants who faced charges for their alleged actions during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol protest. The president told reporters in the Oval Office that Biden’s last-minute pardons made his family appear guilty.
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