President Trump insinuates that Joe Biden made a mistake by not giving himself a pardon…
“This guy went around giving everybody pardons, and you know, the funny thing, maybe the sad thing, is, he didn’t give himself a pardon, and if you look at it, it all had to do with him.”
🔥MUST WATCH: Trump says Biden made a HUGE mistake not pardoning himself hinting at going after him:
“This guy went around giving everybody pardons, and you know, the funny thing, maybe the sad thing, is he didn’t give himself a pardon….”
pic.twitter.com/itKk9rbWn5— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) January 23, 2025
Trump told Hannity that he was given the option on his way out of the White House in 2021 to pardon himself, but declined because he believed he had done nothing wrong despite public efforts to overturn his election loss.
Trump then went on to suggest it was a mistake former President Biden didn’t take advantage of that power himself in his final hours, which culminated at noon on Monday.
“This guy went around giving everybody pardons,” Trump said. “And you know, the funny thing, maybe the sad thing, is he didn’t give himself a pardon. And if you look at it, it all had to do with him.”
Trump later said Biden “got very bad advice.”
“Joe Biden has very bad advisers. Somebody advised Joe Biden to give pardons to everybody but him,” Trump said.
Trump told Hannity he would defer to Congress as to whether lawmakers should investigate Biden and his decision to preemptively pardon family members and Trump critics like retired Gen. Mark Milley, former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and members of the House panel that investigated the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
In announcing those pardons, Biden said he was concerned those individuals would be subject to politically motivated investigations.
Trump also revealed to Hannity that he was given the option on his way out of the White House in his first term to pardon himself, but declined.
“I was given the option. They said sir, would you like to pardon everybody, including yourself?’ I said, ‘I’m not going to pardon anybody. We didn’t do anything wrong,’” Trump said.
Legal experts suggested at the end of Trump’s first term that it was untested legal grounds for a president to try and preemptively pardon themselves.
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