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BumRushDaShow

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Sat Jan 11, 2025, 08:14 AM Jan 11

"I didn't do anything wrong": Biden says he has "no contemplation" of pardoning himself [View all]

Source: Salon

Published January 10, 2025 8:26PM (EST)


President Joe Biden isn't sweating persistent MAGAworld threats of persecution. When asked on Friday if he would use his presidential pardon power to preemptively pardon himself, Biden seemed baffled. "Well, what would I pardon myself for?" Biden asked. "No, I have no contemplation of pardoning myself for anything. I didn’t do anything wrong."

The question came amid a blitz of pardons and commutations from Biden. The president pardoned his son, Hunter Biden, feeling that ongoing prosecutions on tax and gun charges were political (and would be ramped up under the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump).

"From the day I took office, I said I would not interfere with the Justice Department’s decision-making, and I kept my word even as I have watched my son being selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted," President Biden wrote in a statement about his pardon of Hunter.

"Without aggravating factors like use in a crime, multiple purchases, or buying a weapon as a straw purchaser, people are almost never brought to trial on felony charges solely for how they filled out a gun form... It is clear that Hunter was treated differently." President Biden said the continued cases against his son were an attempt to punish him led by his political opposition.

Read more: https://www.salon.com/2025/01/10/i-didnt-do-anything-wrong-biden-says-he-has-no-contemplation-of-pardoning-himself/



Remember that President Joe Biden is a lawyer (and was a practicing lawyer before he ran for elected office).

But worse, the media have welcomed and coddled a CONVICTED FELON to the White House.
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