Bill Clinton gave Joe Biden one reality check about pardons that left him speechless

Joe Biden landed himself in hot water after he pardoned his son Hunter. 

Even one of the heavyweights in the Democrat Party put him on notice.

And Bill Clinton gave Joe Biden one reality check about pardons that left him speechless. 

Clinton sets the record straight

President Joe Biden set off a political firestorm when he issued a blanket pardon to his son, Hunter Biden, after he and his regime denied for months that one was on the table. 

One of the comparisons that political commentators on the Left made was when former President Bill Clinton pardoned his half-brother, Roger Clinton. 

Clinton weighed in on Hunter Biden’s pardon during an interview at the 2024 Dealbook Summit with host Andrew Ross Sorkin.

“I want to know what you actually think of the pardon, of Biden’s pardon for his son,” Sorkin said. “This was not on my plan originally, but I thought — you know what? Everybody, we were out in that hallway, we’re all talking about that, and I said, ‘I’m going to ask the President first.’”

Clinton claimed that the pardon was justified for the Democrat President’s son. 

“Well, I think that the president did have reason to believe that the nature of the offenses involved were likely to produce far stronger adverse consequences for his son than they would for any normal person under the same circumstances,” Clinton replied. 

The former President brought up the comparison to the pardon he gave Roger Clinton.

“Someone said, ‘Well, this is just like when Bill Clinton pardoned his brother,’” Clinton explained. “Well, it’s not. My brother did 14 months in federal prison for something he did when he was 20.”

“I supported it,” Clinton continued. “He testified, told the truth about what he’d done when he had a drug problem and helped to bring down a larger enterprise. And then they sentenced him and he served 14 months and then he got out.”

Clinton claimed the pardon was about helping his brother have a normal life versus escaping accountability. 

Biden shouldn’t have lied to the public about the pardon

Clinton said that Joe Biden shouldn’t have told the public that he wouldn’t pardon Hunter before he ultimately did. 

“I wish he hadn’t said he wasn’t going to do it. I think it does weaken his case, and it makes people freer to dump on him,” Clinton said. “But there is also a reason that the Founding Fathers gave this pardon power to the President because all kinds of things are always happening that you can’t reconcile in terms of this, that and the other thing, and you can’t figure out how to solve it.”

The former President called for an end to the weaponization of the justice system now that Republicans will be in control of Washington, D.C. next year when he was asked about Biden potentially pardoning President-elect Donald Trump.

“Well, I do think we should stop trying to criminalize politics…both of them. And the people like it when they are not going along with it from Right to Left,” Clinton declared. “On the other hand, you have to ask yourself, if you do this as a blanket thing, is there anything a President could do that he or she would someday get in trouble for?”

It’s convenient for Bill Clinton to call for the end of criminalizing politics with Trump headed back to the White House next year.