The View co-hosts slam Republicans for ‘silly’ criticism of Joe Biden over son Hunter’s pardon

The View co-hosts slam Republicans for ‘silly’ criticism of Joe Biden over son Hunter’s pardon


Dec 03, 2024 04:35 PM IST

Whoopi Goldberg slammed Republicans for his or her “silly” criticism of Joe Biden

The View co-hosts suppose Joe Biden’s pardon of his son Hunter is “what presidents do.” During Monday’s episode of the left-leaning present, Whoopi Goldberg defended the president, dismissing the criticism surrounding him as “silly.”

Whoopi Goldberg gestures subsequent to Democratic presidential nominee and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris as they seem on ABC’s “The View” in New York, U.S., October 8, 2024. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY(REUTERS)

The View co-hosts slam Republicans over criticism of Joe Biden’s pardon of his son Hunter

“That’s what presidents do each time. They do it each time. They pardon any individual, so I’m unsure why the pearl-clutching is occurring now, besides that that’s what of us wish to do. But it appears form of silly,” Goldberg stated of Biden in the course of the ABC TV present’s “Hot Topics” phase.

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The View co-host’s comment comes after the president confronted extreme criticism for issuing a full and unconditional pardon for Hunter Biden, who was convicted of a number of felonies, together with gun costs. President-elect Donald Trump slammed the transfer as a “miscarriage of justice.”

While Goldberg’s fellow co-hosts agreed along with her, the present’s solely conservative, Alyssa Farah Griffin, disagreed with the Color Purple star’s assertion, calling out the president for beforehand “mendacity” in regards to the pardon.

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“Most Americans, in the event that they face penalties for actions that they took, they’re going to should face them, and no one highly effective and politically related goes to return sweep in and save them,” stated Griffin, who served as press secretary of the Department of Defense throughout Trump’s first time period.

She went on to say that the transfer “feeds the notion to plenty of this nation that there’s merely a distinct algorithm for these in energy.” Meanwhile, Sunny Hostin claimed that Hunter wouldn’t have been prosecuted within the first place ought to his final title not be Biden.

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