CNN’s Brianna Keilar grilled Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) on Monday over President Joe Biden giving a blanket pardon to his son, convicted felon Hunter Biden, by playing Goldman’s own words from the past denying that Biden would do so.
Keilar played Goldman’s remarks on the network’s “News Central” after Biden issued the sweeping pardon that covered every crime Hunter Biden was convicted of and any additional crime that he may have committed over an 11-year period.
When asked in 2023 — after the sweetheart plea deal that Hunter Biden had with federal prosecutors fell apart — if a pardon would be a mistake, Goldman responded: “Yes.”
“And I don’t think there’s any chance that President Biden is going to do that, unlike his predecessor, who pardoned all of his friends and anyone who had any access to him,” Goldman claimed. “And I think you see that in this case,…
