Bill Clinton Defends Joe Biden’s Decision to Pardon His Son Hunter

“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.” “What does it do to the Democratic Party, to all those folks who were out there saying, ‘No, rule of law this, rule of law that, he said he would never do this?’” “Yes, and we had a lot better record than the Republicans did, didn’t we? And what good did it do us? You can’t take the politics out of these pardon decisions if the president’s in any way involved. So, I wish he hadn’t said he wasn’t going to do it. I think it does weaken his case. But there’s also a reason 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.”