On Monday’s CBS Mornings Plus, they brought out former Lyndon Johnson assistant Doris Kearns Goodwin to assess Joe Biden’s pardon of his son Hunter. The 81-year-old Democrat was promoted as a nonpartisan expert, as a “Pulitzer Prize-winning historian” with six best-sellers. They oddly compared the Hunter pardon to Gerald Ford pardoning President Nixon and Abraham Lincoln pardoning deserters from the Union Army in the Civil War.
TONY DOKOUPIL: So let’s talk about Joe Biden’s pardon of Hunter. You know, I think if there hadn’t been so much sanctimony around sort of, this was a miscarriage of justice and this was a raw politics at play, if he just said, I’m a dad, I’ve already lost one son, I’m 80-something years old, I’m not going to lose another to prison time, so I’m doing it. How would it go over if he did that?
This framing completely overlooks…
