Former Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill on Monday lamented President Biden’s decision to use “ammunition.” forgive his son Hunter will give to the Trump world.
“When I saw this pardon last night, I kind of wished I wasn’t on TV today. Although if I was on TV, I’m sure glad I’m on TV with you,” McCaskill said. said to Nicolle Wallace on MSNBC’s “Deadline: White House.”
“Here’s the thing,” she added. ‘Do I understand Joe Biden’s pardon? Yes, completely. I understand. It’s completely understandable. But people on “both sides” have just been given some very powerful ammunition. And I hate it for that reason.”
She added that she doesn’t “blame” Biden for what he did, calling him a “great man” who “desperately loves his family.” Despite this, she regretted his repeated insistence that he would not pardon his son.
MSNBC analyst Claire McCaskill explained how she hated that President Biden pardoning his son would be used by Republicans. (MSNBC screenshot)
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She said: ‘If he repeatedly says he wouldn’t do this and then does it anyway, he’s getting to the side of the mountain of lies and scandal – I mean, the endless amount of horrible corruption and lack of integrity that’s plaguing the world. teased. Trump – it somehow allows them to say, ‘Well look, he’s just the same, Joe Biden is no different.’”
“Yes, Joe Biden is different from Donald Trump. He is not the same,” McCaskill said. “I wish Biden had said all along, ‘I will pardon my son because this is a political persecution.’ The fact that he said he wouldn’t do it and now he did, I just hate that.”
Biden announced Sunday evening that he had pardoned his son, claiming the charges against Hunter were unfair.
Biden previously said he would not pardon his son Hunter after his federal trials last year. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
“Today I signed a pardon for my son Hunter,” Biden said in a statement. “From the day I took office, I said I would not interfere with the Department of Justice’s decision-making, and I kept my word even as I watched my son be selectively and unjustly prosecuted.”
The announcement came after the White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre had insisted on it several times in recent years that he would accept the outcome of Hunter’s federal trials.
Other Democrats and liberal media figures also criticized Biden’s decisioneven while defending the president.
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“For those of us who have been screaming for a few years about what a unique threat Donald Trump is, for Joe Biden to do something like this, no one is above the law, we have been screaming,” former Congressman Joe Walsh said on MSNBC Sunday night.
Biden argued that the prosecution against his son was unfair. (REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque)
He added: “Donald Trump lies every time he opens his mouth, we screamed. Joe Biden has lied about this repeatedly. The politicization of the justice system, Donald Trump and his people have cried out. That’s exactly what Biden said here.”
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