Democratic South Carolina Rep. Jim Clyburn said Thursday that he has asked President Joe Biden’s staff to grant President-elect Donald Trump a “preemptive” pardon.
cliburnHe is one of several prominent Democrats who have announced their support, helping Biden with his support in the 2020 primary. suggest The president followed up his son Hunter’s pardon on Sunday by arguing that Trump should also be pardoned. A South Carolina lawmaker told NewsNation’s “The Hill” that he has not yet spoken to Biden himself about the issue, but that the president’s staff should consider issuing multiple “preemptive pardons,” including for President Trump. He said that he had informed him. (Related article: Andy McCarthy says Hunter Biden was “pardoned for charges that no American should be forgiven.”)
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“I didn’t urge the president directly, but I thought he should do it, and I discussed it with his staff,” Clyburn said. “I think we need to clean up the air in this country…I think we’re trying to run a government on behalf of all the people in this country, and if we all the time from now on… if you spend it pursuing Trump or pursuing Trump; [Former Wyoming Republican Rep.] liz cheney [special counsel] Dr. Jack Smith. [Anthony] Fauci, that’s what we need to get off the table. ”
Co-hosts of the popular left-wing podcast Pod Save America also floated the idea of Biden pardoning figures like Cheney and Fauci following the president’s son pardon.
“So I’ve asked the president’s officials to consider pre-emptive pardons for all these people and take them off the table. Please take them off the table, I know Donald Trump and… Because I think the country knows Donald Trump,” Clyburn continued. “And as soon as he gets to the point where he can take credit for it, he’ll do it right away. So I’ve asked the president to move this forward.”
Clyburn added that Biden’s staff listened to his suggestions and told him they would pass them on to Biden.
“So I’m waiting for the president’s response,” he said.
NewsNation host Chris Cuomo and ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith also called on Mr. Biden on Monday to pardon Mr. Trump.
“Enough is enough, you know? You’re a Democrat, you lost the election,” Smith told Cuomo in response to Cuomo’s insistence that Biden should pardon Trump. “We couldn’t prevent him from returning to the White House. As you know, over a dozen cases were dropped against him. For the cases that were decided against him, he He’s going to appeal and maybe he’ll be relieved of having to deal with all of that. It’s time to move on.”
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