Re: "The View" Hosts Celebrate Hunter Biden's Pardon While Blaming Trump For It

On 2024-12-03 4:34 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

The hosts of ABC's "The View" -- with one exception -- celebrated President
Joe Biden's surprise decision to issue a blanket pardon to his embattled son
Hunter, absolving him of any and all federal crimes that he may have
committed over an 11-year period.
 Co-host Whoopi Goldberg began the conversation during Monday's broadcast --
less than 24 hours after the White House announced that the pardon was coming
-- and she dismissed criticisms of the move by saying it was simply "a
president's prerogative" and should not matter because "we have a convicted
felon as president."
 WATCH:
  Alyssa Farah Griffin says that this proved to Americans "that
there's a different set of rules for folks in power."
She also hints that she was stopped by ABC from asking Biden on
the show if he planned to pardon Hunter, she calls him out for
"lying to the public" about it. pic.twitter.com/kS3a0ZYHKR
  -- Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) December 2, 2024
 Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin -- the odd woman out -- argued that Biden's
historically unprecedented decision to pardon his own son gave credence to
critics who said there was a different justice system for the elites. She
also suggested that she had wanted to ask Biden about a potential pardon for
Hunter when he was on the show in recent weeks but was pushed away from doing
so by the network.
 Co-host Sunny Hostin suggested that there was no fault in the pardon itself
-- and that the hypocrites were the people who believed Biden was abusing his
power by granting it. She also reverted to Goldberg's argument, suggesting
that because the American people had elected "a convicted felon" like Trump,
Biden's abuse of power no longer mattered.
 WATCH:
  Hostin blames Trump for Joe Biden lying about pardoning Hunter: "I
think one of the reasons why he didn't admit it earlier because he
didn't know the felon-in-chief would become the next president."
Whoopi tries to cut off the conversation about Joe being a liar.
pic.twitter.com/XBlGgfBx99
  -- Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) December 2, 2024
 Hostin also argued that Biden wasn't really lying about not pardoning Hunter,
claiming that he had intended not to until Trump was elected. "I think one of
the reasons why he didn't admit it earlier was because he didn't know the
felon-in-chief would become the next president," she said.
 Ana Navarro weighed in next, referring to Hunter as Biden's "only surviving
son" and saying she had been personally lobbying Biden to pardon Hunter for
some time.
 WATCH:
  Speaking to Hunter, Navarro boasts: "Hunter, your dad has given you
a great, great gift, the gift of freedom, and taking this weight off
your shoulders.""I hope now Hunter gives his dad a gift, the gift of
being a good son, a good father," she adds.
  Hunter abandoned his daughter pic.twitter.com/uiRgroyOab
  -- Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) December 2, 2024
 "Hunter, your dad has given you a great, great gift, the gift of freedom, and
taking this weight off your shoulders," Navarro continued. "I hope now Hunter
gives his dad a gift, the gift of being a good son, a good father."
 Navarro left out the fact that Hunter Biden has a child he hardly
acknowledges.
 Goldberg backtracked to defend Biden again for reneging on his promise not to
pardon Hunter, arguing, "I think Biden had no intentions of pardoning
Hunter," until Trump was elected.
 WATCH:
  Whoopi RAGES at people upset about Joe pardoning Hunter:
"He's the president, the sitting president, and he can do whatever
he wants to... I can't believe this is what's freaking people out!
... What's good for the goose is good for the gander. We're
moving on." pic.twitter.com/JkequKrwLH
  -- Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) December 2, 2024
 "He's the president, the sitting president, and he can do whatever he wants
to," Goldberg scolded, adding, "I can't believe this is what's freaking
people out!"
 

I'm looking forward to her being equally emphatic in her support of the president when Trump pardons the J6 conspirators or himself.
And no, I don't for a moment believe she will be. She'll be shouting from the rooftops how wrong, wrong, wrong it is for a president to use his power of pardon that way.
--
Rhino