Whoopi Goldberg shared why she thinks President Joe Biden wasn’t hypocritical in pardoning her son Hunter on Sunday even though he had said he wouldn’t.
Goldberg suggested that Hunter should have been forgiven because he was addicted to drugs and didn’t know what he was doing.
Hunter was convicted in June of lying on a federal government form to purchase a gun and also of possessing the firearm while abusing drugs. In September, he pleaded guilty to nine felony counts of tax evasion.
According to Goldberg, when Hunter committed these crimes he had the excuse of having a drug problem, while Donald Trump did not have that same excuse.
“It’s a precedent for all of us to open our eyes because we have chosen someone who is in a similar situation, who did not have a drug problem, who knew what he was doing,” he said on Monday’s edition of The View. .
Goldberg could have been referring to several different things when he said Trump was in a “similar situation” to Hunter.
It could be the secret money trial, the case that made him the first former president convicted of a crime. It could also have been the case of special counsel Jack Smith who accused Trump of deliberately spreading lies about the 2020 election and orchestrating a conspiracy to undermine the January 6 certification process.
There is another case of electoral subversion based in Fulton County, Georgia, which was the one for which Trump had to have his mugshot taken. And finally, there is the case in which Trump allegedly refused to return classified documents to the White House in a timely manner.
Whoopi Goldberg suggested Hunter Biden’s pardon was justified because of his drug addiction
Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin didn’t buy this explanation and criticized Joe Biden for ‘lying’ since he said in June that he wouldn’t forgive Hunter.
Trump’s famous lifelong sobriety, compared to Hunter’s well-known addiction to crack, cocaine and alcohol, makes their situations completely different, Goldberg went on to say.
“I think for many, many reasons, this is very different than any other situation we’ve ever faced,” Goldberg said.
Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin, who opened the conversation by criticizing Biden for pardoning Hunter, was visibly taken aback as she listened to Goldberg’s counterattack.
Griffin, White House Director of Strategic Communications during Trump’s first term, noted at the beginning of the segment that Biden promised not to pardon his son.
‘I respect him as a father. “I understand why he would do it, but I wanted to understand… why lie about it for so long,” he said.
Goldberg interrupted her: “I’d stop calling it a lie.”
‘Okay, why do you repeatedly say you’re not going to do it and you do it? Secondly, on the part of this country… that does not support Biden, does not know him personally, does not receive phone calls and is simply looking at a system that seems to only benefit the people. who are in power,” Griffin responded.
Later in the segment, Goldberg argued that Biden didn’t actually intend to forgive his son from the beginning.
Insiders now say Joe Biden was considering a pardon for months after Hunter’s conviction in a federal gun case over the summer.
“I think Biden had no intention of forgiving Hunter and I think the more things that happened, I think he said, ‘Why am I working my butt off to stay upright… when no one else is?'” she said.
Recent leaks appear to contradict this, with insiders now saying Biden was considering a pardon for months after Hunter’s conviction in a federal gun case over the summer.
The pardon will allow Hunter to be pardoned for any crimes he committed “from January 1, 2014 to December 1, 2024.”
“From the day I took office, I said I would not interfere with the decision-making of the Department of Justice, and I kept my word even as I watched my son be selectively and unfairly prosecuted,” Biden said in a statement.
“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 continued.
But critics claimed the broadly worded pardon was an attempt to cover up his actions on the board of Ukrainian gas company Burisma.
Karine Jean-Pierre, Biden’s press secretary, has been questioned by reporters aboard Air Force One since she said several weeks ago that a pardon or clemency for Hunter was out of the question.
Jean-Pierre insisted that the president was a sincere man who did not make his decision until the weekend, as he said in his statement on Sunday.
“First of all, one of the things the president always believes in is being honest with the American people,” he said. “That’s something he always truly believes in.”
Donald Trump sees Biden’s decision to pardon Hunter as a symptom of a broken justice system politicized by the liberal left, but did not directly criticize the president for the move.
Trump’s immediate response to Biden’s shocking move was to suggest that he might pardon the remaining people who were convicted for rioting at the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
‘Does the pardon granted by Joe to Hunter include the J-6 hostages, who have been imprisoned for years? What an abuse and miscarriage of justice! Trump wrote.
Even other prominent members of Biden’s own party criticized him, including Colorado Gov. Jared Polis.
“While as a father I certainly understand President @JoeBiden’s natural desire to help his son by pardoning him, I am disappointed that he put his family before the country,” Polis wrote.
“This is a bad precedent that could be abused by subsequent presidents and will unfortunately tarnish their reputation.”
Rep. Greg Stanton, D-Ariz., said that while he respects the president, Biden’I was wrong on this one..’
“This was not a politically motivated prosecution. Hunter committed serious crimes and was convicted by a jury of his peers,” Stanton wrote in X.