Of all the bad takes on President Joe Biden pardoning his son Hunter, MSNBC host and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart had the worst on Friday’s PBS News Hour. In Capehart’s mind, Biden was justified because Kamala Harris lost and Democrats need “to stop bringing a melon baller to a knife fight.”
Host Geoff Bennett ran down the list of reasons why people have criticized Biden’s pardon, from his pledge not to, to his claims that he would protect Justice Department independence, and asked, “Jonathan, in your view, was it justified, and what’s the lasting impact?”
Capehart responded and claims that the situation has changed, “Yes, it was justified. When the president said that he would not pardon his son, wouldn’t grant clemency, the facts on the ground were completely different. It’s the middle of a presidential…
