Former Barack Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod slammed former President Joe Biden's decision to pardon his family in the final moments of his presidency, telling the former commander-in-chief to “get a grip.” .
“It was terrible,” groaned Axelrod, a frequent critic of Biden. In an episode of his “Hacks on Tap” podcast It was released on Tuesday. “Ten minutes before the inauguration, the government announced that he had granted amnesty to members of his family.
“I mean, man stand up! You know what I'm saying? Cheer up, if you're going to do it, do it, but don't do it literally. You've got one foot out the door, so explain. You don't have to do it or take responsibility for it,” the CNN contributor continued.
'Can we end the presidency as badly as he did? I mean, Trump did that,' Axelrod said.
Biden on Monday made the unprecedented and controversial decision to grant a blanket and preemptive pardon to his brother and his spouse, announced about 15 minutes before Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th president. did.
Biden, 82, said his family has been subjected to “relentless attacks and intimidation and partisan politics of the worst kind, motivated solely by a desire to hurt me,” and that he has “no reason to believe these attacks will ever end.” No,” he claimed.
The move comes just 50 days after the 46th president announced a historic and sweeping pardon for his disgraced son Hunter, who was convicted on gun and tax evasion charges.
Trump, 78, said in an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity that aired Wednesday that Biden received “very bad advice” to pardon his relatives.
“The funny thing, maybe the sad thing, you know what? He didn't pardon himself,” Trump said.
“Joe Biden has received very bad advice… Joe Biden has very bad advisers,” the president continued. “Someone advised Joe Biden to pardon everyone but him.”
