Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) said Republicans who criticized President Biden's pardon of her son Hunter should “look in the mirror.”
“Thank you Joe. Let me be the first to congratulate the president for making this decision,” Crockett said of the controversial pardon, which has been criticized by Republicans as well as some Democrats.
“For those who want to clutch their pearls right now. [President Biden] He decided he was going to forgive his son, and he wanted to look in the mirror, because when it comes to this cabinet, he also knows that more people have been accused of sexual assault than probably any incoming cabinet in American history. Because there is. ” Crockett said of President-elect Trump’s political appointees.
Mr. Crockett said this in a lecture. Sunday evening appearance on MSNBC In it, she also called Trump “a felon with 34 convictions.”
Biden gave a full and unconditional guarantee to Hunter Biden, who was convicted in June of three felonies in a federal case for concealing drug use and unlawful gun purchase and possession in 2018. granted amnesty.
Hunter Biden also avoided a trial by pleading guilty to nine federal tax charges in September.
Biden said he granted the pardon because his son was the target of political prosecution.
But in making that argument, many critics of the decision pointed out that the president was essentially repeating Trump's own claims about the prosecution.
