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The Counsel

Note from Elie 12/3: Joe Biden’s Pardon of Hunter Is So Much Worse Than It Needed to Be

The Counsel

Some Spider, Inc.

Politics, News

4.6848 Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Elie Honig is a former Assistant U.S. Attorney and co-chief of the organized crime unit at the Southern District of New York, where he prosecuted more than 100 mobsters, including members of La Cosa Nostra, and the Gambino and Genovese crime families. He went on to serve as Director of the Department of Law and Public Safety at New Jersey Division of Criminal Justice. He is currently Special Counsel at Lowenstein Sandler and a CNN legal analyst.  For a transcript of Elie’s note and the full archive of contributor notes, head to CAFE.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:31.5

Hey everyone, it's Ellie, wishing you a happy, I guess Tuesday will be when you hear this instead of the customary Friday.

0:37.5

We'll probably be back with something else on Friday.

0:40.4

But the reason we're doing this early in the week, of course, is because we got huge,

0:44.6

I was going to say surprise, but not really surprising.

0:46.8

Maybe the timing was surprising.

0:48.6

Huge news on the Sunday night of Thanksgiving weekend.

0:51.7

Of that, of course, is President Joe Biden's pardon of his son, Hunter Biden.

0:56.8

There's a lot at play here.

0:58.5

There's a lot of sort of conflicting type of through lines, which we'll get into in a

1:03.5

minute.

1:03.9

One thing that I almost wish Joe Biden had done, I would accredit him a lot more if he did,

1:08.1

is if he just said, it's my son.

1:10.1

No parent will let a child go to

1:11.6

prison if they could prevent it. I said that on air, months ago, gosh, when Joe Biden was making

1:16.9

one of his many obviously false denials that he would ever do this, it cut back to me. And they said,

1:22.3

what do you think? I said, I don't know, I would definitely part of my son for no matter what I think anyone would. And everyone else on the panel agreed with me. I would almost, I would actually, not almost.

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