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Laura Coates Live

Democrats Criticize Biden’s Pardon: “Wrong”, “Unwise”

Laura Coates Live

CNN

News

3.92.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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President Joe Biden’s decision to pardon his son has left some Democrats fuming over his choice to repeatedly and unequivocally claim that he would never take that step, even though a pardon long appeared possible to Hunter Biden’s legal team. Multiple officials who recently worked for Joe Biden said they never believed the president or White House aides speaking on his behalf when they insisted in recent months that a pardon for Hunter Biden was off the table. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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So Democrats are finding themselves once again in a bind over a decision or a choice from

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President Joe Biden.

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Now, first, it was his choice to run it all, frankly, in

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2024, only leave the party scrambling in the wake of his, well, disastrous debate performance.

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Well, now it's the pardoning of his son Hunter after publicly insisting personally and through

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