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Biden allies fume at the president
Posted on: December 2, 2024 at 15:19:13 CT
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From CNN's MJ Lee:
President Joe Biden’s decision to pardon his son Hunter, made public in a lengthy statement late Sunday, has some former senior aides fuming.
Some are wondering why the president chose to unequivocally claim on multiple occasions that he would never take such a step.
Multiple officials who recently worked for Biden told CNN that they personally never believed it when the president — and White House aides speaking on his behalf — insisted in recent months that a pardon for Hunter Biden was off the table.
“Anyone who was even close to the top knew that he was probably going to do this. Why did we pretend otherwise?” an ex-senior West Wing aide said.
A different former senior White House official said they and others around them had felt “certain” Joe Biden would ultimately pardon Hunter, while another ex-administration official put it this way: “It was extremely, painfully obvious that this was where things would end up.”
Biden’s public reversal this weekend and the issuance of a sweeping “full and unconditional” pardon for his son now has some of those same Democrats wondering why he had maintained that he wouldn’t take a course of action that had seemed simply inevitable to so many around the president.
“I wonder if there was a way to just be less righteous about it, and more like: ‘We’re not spending our time thinking about that,’” the former administration official said.
The ex-senior West Wing aide echoed that sentiment, saying there were multiple ways in which Biden could have left the door open to a pardon rather than ruling out its possibility altogether.
“Could he have been super honest?” they asked. “Like, ‘Hey, I don’t know, I can’t answer that right now.’”
From CNN's MJ Lee:
President Joe Biden’s decision to pardon his son Hunter, made public in a lengthy statement late Sunday, has some former senior aides fuming.
Some are wondering why the president chose to unequivocally claim on multiple occasions that he would never take such a step.
Multiple officials who recently worked for Biden told CNN that they personally never believed it when the president — and White House aides speaking on his behalf — insisted in recent months that a pardon for Hunter Biden was off the table.
“Anyone who was even close to the top knew that he was probably going to do this. Why did we pretend otherwise?” an ex-senior West Wing aide said.
A different former senior White House official said they and others around them had felt “certain” Joe Biden would ultimately pardon Hunter, while another ex-administration official put it this way: “It was extremely, painfully obvious that this was where things would end up.”
Biden’s public reversal this weekend and the issuance of a sweeping “full and unconditional” pardon for his son now has some of those same Democrats wondering why he had maintained that he wouldn’t take a course of action that had seemed simply inevitable to so many around the president.
“I wonder if there was a way to just be less righteous about it, and more like: ‘We’re not spending our time thinking about that,’” the former administration official said.
The ex-senior West Wing aide echoed that sentiment, saying there were multiple ways in which Biden could have left the door open to a pardon rather than ruling out its possibility altogether.
“Could he have been super honest?” they asked. “Like, ‘Hey, I don’t know, I can’t answer that right now.’”
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