The hosts of ABC’s “The View” — who have, like many in legacy media, often trashed President-elect Donald Trump for disrupting “norms” — suddenly don’t care about norms anymore now that President Joe Biden only has a couple months left during which he could issue a pardon to his embattled sun Hunter.
The cohosts discussed the topic at length on Tuesday — three weeks to the day since Trump won a decisive victory over Vice President Kamala Harris — because they appear convinced that Trump will use his second term in office to punish his political enemies in the same way that Biden’s Justice Department came after him.
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After calling Trump a threat to democracy, institutions, and norms for nearly a decade, the hypocrites of The View now want President Biden to pardon his Hunter.
"So, personally, I would pardon my child." – Alyssa Farah Griffin
The liberal audience cheers the idea. pic.twitter.com/MKULEC0XOB— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) November 27, 2024
Cohost Whoopi Goldberg kicked off the conversation, asking whether Biden should pardon his son — and got a chorus of positive responses from the audience before the others at the table even weighed in.
“Does that make him an even bigger target for you-know-who coming in?” Goldberg asked, still unwilling to say Trump’s name aloud. “It’s a — interesting question, which I pose to you all.”
“So, personally, I think I would pardon my child,” Alyssa Farah Griffin replied. “I don’t even have kids, I’d bury a body for my child, so I get it as a personal decision. I worry a little bit about the implications for the country, and I mean this not because hunter Biden affects the country but because there’s such a distrust in the powerful, the politically connected, and there’s this idea that there’s a different system of justice.”
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Griffin concluded by noting that the indictments against Trump had gone away “because he’s in power” and argued that was the same.
Sunny Hostin also was in favor of a pardon for the younger Biden, claiming that he was only prosecuted because his name was Biden and ignoring the fact that the cases she had whole-heartedly supported against President-elect Trump, by most accounts, were only brought because his name was Donald Trump.
“I actually think that the only reason he was indicted was because his last name is Biden,” she said.
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Sara Haines claims Biden has been such a good president and got such a raw deal in the election that he's earned a pardon for Hunter. She wants him to say: "I'm out and so is Hunter."
The View also wants Biden to pardon is dog who attacked multiple people: 'Justice for Commander" pic.twitter.com/3F2NNd3LYF— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) November 27, 2024
Cohost Sara Haines favored a pardon as well, suggesting that Biden had earned the right to pardon his son because he’d been such a good president. Haines also made a case for Biden to pardon his dog, Commander, who bit multiple Secret Service agents in some two dozen incidents. The dog was never formally charged.