Joe Biden’s About-Face on Hunter Biden’s Pardon
WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 2 December 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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| 0:32.7 | From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch. |
| 0:41.3 | President Biden pardons his son, Hunter Biden, after a family retreat over the Thanksgiving holiday. What is the political fallout, |
| 0:49.2 | especially since the president had insisted he would never do this? and what message does it send to Americans |
| 0:55.8 | about equal justice under the law? Welcome, I'm Paul as you go here on Potomac Watch, |
| 1:01.2 | the daily podcast of the Wall Street Journal opinion pages. I'm here with Kyle Peterson and |
| 1:06.2 | Kim Strassel. Let's talk about the Biden pardon. Came Sunday evening late and was startling not really in the sense that we didn't expect |
| 1:15.6 | here at the journal, the president, to pardon his son. |
| 1:17.6 | We certainly did. |
| 1:18.6 | We wrote that. |
| 1:19.6 | But he had insisted he would never do it. |
| 1:22.6 | So let's listen to the president first to talk about that. |
| 1:25.6 | And also then White House spokeswoman |
| 1:28.8 | Corrine Jean-Pierre responding to multiple questions on the point from the press. |
| 1:33.8 | As we sit here in Normandy, your son Hunter is on trial, and I know that you cannot speak |
| 1:40.3 | about an ongoing federal prosecution. But let me ask you, will you accept the jury's outcome, |
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