CNN host Brianna Keilar grilled Congressman Dan Goldman of New York for his past comments in which he claimed President Biden would never forgive his son Hunter.
Biden granted a sweeping pardon to Hunter on Sunday after repeatedly promising not to do so. The eldest son was convicted in two separate federal cases earlier this year. He pleaded guilty to federal tax charges in September and was convicted in June of three felony gun counts for falsely stating on a mandatory gun purchase form that he did not use the weapon illegally or was addicted to drugs. I received it.
The president said in a statement that Hunter was “singularly chosen simply because he is my son” and claimed there was an effort to “destroy Hunter” in order to “destroy me.”
Keillor recalled in an interview with Goldman on Monday that “right after the plea deal fell through, you strongly supported Mr. Biden when he said there would be no pardons in July 2023.” .
Congressman Dan Goldman has come under fire for claiming in the past that President Joe Biden would not pardon his son Hunter Biden.
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The news host then played a recording of Goldman claiming that Biden would never forgive his son in 2023.
“I don't think there's any chance that President Biden would do something like that. Unlike previous President Biden, who pardoned all his friends and everyone who had access to him. And this time he continued to pardon. And Merrick Garland continued to use the Trump-appointed U.S. attorney to investigate the president's son, if there were no further signs of Justice Department independence. “I don't know what we can look into,” the lawmaker said. time.
“What does that look like?” Mr. Keillor asked Mr. Goldman. “Looking at myself at the time when I reassured people that Biden was not going to pardon my son.”
“Well, I don't think there would have been a pardon if that plea deal had been made, but it was a satisfying outcome–” Goldman began.
WASHINGTON DC – JANUARY 10: US President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden and attorney Abby Lowell (left) from a House Oversight Committee meeting at the Capitol on January 10, 2024 in Washington, DC. is leaving. (Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)
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“It was already falling,” Keillor interjected, correcting the customer. “When you reacted, that was when the deal fell through.”
He also argued that while he understands his concerns about President-elect Donald Trump's nomination of Kash Patel to head the FBI, that doesn't cancel out the fact that he misread Biden's strategy. .
“You took his word for it, but how would you feel knowing he was back together again?'' she asked.
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“Well, as I said, after the petition failed, it became clear why it happened, including the Republican intervention in Congress in this case, which makes this case very unique and different from other cases. “I regret that it turned out to be something completely different,'' he insisted.
He went on to say that Hunter was particularly targeted because he is the president's son and could be at risk of “politically motivated retaliatory prosecution” under the incoming Trump Justice Department. He claimed that there was.
FOX News' Kristin Parks contributed to this report.
