Chuck Todd Rips The Bidens: They "Put The Entire Democratic Party... In The Position It's In Now"

NBC News chief political analyst Chuck Todd tore into President Joe Biden and
first lady Jill Biden after the president issued a pardon on Sunday to their
son, Hunter Biden, who was facing possible prison time over gun and tax
crimes.

In a discussion with journalist Chris Cillizza, Todd said he knew �100%� the
pardon was going to happen and insisted President Biden �needs therapy�
because he has �not processed� the death of his older son, former Delaware
Attorney General Beau Biden, who passed away of brain cancer at the age of 46
in 2015.

President Biden has an �issue� with Hunter Biden in which he blames himself
for Hunter Biden�s struggles over the years, including drug addiction,
�second-guesses everything� with raising Hunter compared to how he raised
Beau, Todd contended.

Todd also reportedly said he believed that Biden was never going to stand for
the possible �humiliation� that President-elect Donald Trump would be the one
to pardon Hunter Biden.

I talk to @chucktodd every Monday for my newsletter.

It's always a good conversation.

But, I thought Chuck NAILED it today on why the Hunter Biden trial
really mattered when thinking about the Biden presidency and the
pardon.

Watch the whole thing at the link in my bio.
pic.twitter.com/FzBUBKM1cI

� Chris Cillizza (@ChrisCillizza) December 3, 2024

The conversation then turned to the summer, when a jury in Delaware convicted
Hunter Biden on three felony counts of lying on paperwork for a revolver and
owning the firearm while being a drug addict in 2018. Todd mentioned Beau
Biden�s widow, Hallie Biden. After Beau�s death, she started a romantic
relationship with Hunter. Her public disposal of Hunter�s gun led to the
firearm case against him.

�I followed the Hunter Biden trial very closely. I read every transcript, all
the testimony, because all that was made public. � You want to get angry?
Just as somebody in � just all these mixed emotions,� Todd said.

�You read the Hallie Biden transcript, and that�s Beau�s widow. And
essentially, [Hunter] turned her into a crack addict. And this was all
happening in 2017 and 2018. And Joe and Jill Biden were so concerned about
their family that they decided to run for president,� Todd continued. �When
you talk about the word selfish � their decision to run for president put the
entire Democratic Party and the United States of America in the position it�s
in now.�

Cillizza, a former CNN editor at large who now has a newsletter called �So
What?� on Substack, posted a clip of the discussion to X on Monday. Some of
those who commented on the post noted how Todd appeared to be more defensive
of the Bidens in the past.

Washington Free Beacon investigative reporter Chuck Ross pointed out an
interview with Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) on NBC�s �Meet The Press� early last
year in which Todd �went to the mat� for Hunter Biden when the first son was
under investigation but had not yet been charged with any crimes.

�Senator, do you have a crime that you think Hunter Biden committed because
I�ve yet to see anybody explain. It is not a crime to make money off of your
last name,� Todd said at one point. At another, he said, �Look, you can go
back on your partisan cable cocoon and talk about media bias all you want. I
understand it�s part of your identity.�

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Let's go Brandon!