Bill Clinton said Thursday that he was willing to talk to President Joe Biden about a potential pardon for his wife Hillary Clinton should President-elect Donald Trump try to lock her up.
Trump lashed out at Clinton in his 2016 campaign and his nominee to head the FBI, Kash Patel, has said he believes the former secretary of state has potentially committed crimes.
“Lock her up,” was a common chant about Clinton among Trump supporters. The president-elect also vowed revenge against those he calls his political enemies.
Bill Clinton, during an appearance on ABC’s The View, called any possible attack on his wife “nonsense.”
“If Kash Patel is determined to invent one, he could do it, but I think if President Biden wanted to talk to me about it, I’ll talk to him about it,” the former president said.
However, he later added that he may not be the best person to talk about pardons. During her presidency, Clinton caused widespread controversy when she pardoned billionaire Marc Rich, who had been on the run for decades for fraud related to illegal oil deals and failing to pay more than $48 million in taxes.
‘I don’t think I should give public advice about the pardon power. “I think it’s a very personal thing, but it is. I hope (Trump) doesn’t do that,” Clinton said.
Bill Clinton, on The View, said he was willing to talk to President Joe Biden about an alleged pardon for Hillary Clinton.
‘Trump, you know, most of us left this world sooner than we would if all we had was simple justice. “So it’s usually foolish and spending a lot of time trying to get revenge,” Bill Clinton added.
Patel has listed dozens of people he considered enemies of the “deep state,” including current national security adviser Jake Sullivan, current FBI Director Cristopher Wray, former FBI Director James Comey, former Comey deputy Andy McCabe, the former FBI agent Peter Strzok and former FBI attorney Lisa Page.
Trump has criticized Hillary Clinton for her use of a private email server as secretary of state.
She was investigated for her use of the server, but said she never used it to send classified information.
Clinton was ultimately not charged in the case. Trump claims that was because the Justice Department was protecting her.
Then-FBI Director James Comey announced in October 2016, a month before that year’s presidential election, that he would reopen the investigation. He found nothing new, but Clinton allies blamed her announcement on her loss to Trump.
Bill Clinton, on The View, argued that his wife “followed the rules exactly as they were written” regarding her use of a private server as secretary of state.
She noted that official investigations never found her guilty of what Republicans accused her of.
‘They have a problem with her because, first, she didn’t do anything wrong. Second, he followed the rules exactly as they were written. Third, Trump’s State Department (Trump’s State Department) found out – remember how emails were such a big problem in 2016? Trump’s State Department found that Hillary sent and received exactly zero classified emails on her personal device. It was a false story made up,’ he said.
President Joe Biden caused controversy by pardoning his son Hunter (right)
President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for FBI director, Kash Patel, to meet with senators
Biden is considering blanket pardons for many political officials who Trump could target even if they have not broken the law. A blanket pardon would save them legal fees if Trump tried to attack them.
Trump has vowed revenge against those he believes wronged him, including former Rep. Liz Cheney, a Republican who criticized his actions on Jan. 6; Senator Adam Smith, who, as a member of the House, led the impeachment process against Trump; Dr. Anthony Fauci, who was a top medical official during the COVID pandemic; and Jack Smith, the special prosecutor who indicted Trump on multiple federal charges.
The president-elect lashed out at his political opponents during the election and has not let up.
On Sunday, he threatened to jail all House lawmakers who served on the special committee that investigated the Jan. 6 insurrection.
“Every member of that committee… for what they did, yes, honestly, they should go to jail,” Trump said on NBC’s Meet the Press.
Biden made his own controversial pardon decision when he pardoned his son Hunter after repeatedly promising not to do so.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre acknowledged that more pardons are coming, but has not offered any details.
He also defended Biden’s decision to pardon his son, saying “circumstances have changed.”
Bill Clinton defended his wife Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server as secretary of state, noting that she was neither charged nor found guilty of anything.
In his statement announcing Hunter’s pardon, President Biden said his son was the target of the list of names.
“No reasonable person looking at the facts of Hunter’s cases can come to any conclusion other than that Hunter was singled out just because he is my son, and that is wrong,” he said.
He forgave his son shortly before Hunter faced sentencing for federal convictions related to the purchase of a gun and for failing to pay his taxes.