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Schweizer: Truth Behind Biden’s Family Pardons | 1.26.25

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🗓️ 26 January 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Peter Schweizer breaks down President Biden’s unprecedented pardons for his family, the corruption allegations, and what’s next for congressional investigations. Get the facts first on Morning Wire. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

In the final minutes of his presidency, Joe Biden shocked the political world by issuing preemptive

0:08.7

pardons for several of his own family members. The move has sparked renewed calls for investigations

0:14.1

into Biden family corruption. In this episode, we sit down with best-selling author Peter Schweitzer

0:19.7

to discuss the unprecedented

0:21.2

Biden family pardons and Republicans' plans to follow the money.

0:25.8

I'm Daily Wire, editor-in-chief John Bickley, with Georgia Howe.

0:29.2

It's Sunday, January 26th, and this is a weekend edition of Morning Wire.

0:35.5

Joining us now is Peter Schweitzer, best-selling author author and president of the Government Accountability Institute.

0:41.5

Peter, always great to talk to you.

0:42.8

Thanks for coming on.

0:43.7

Of course.

0:44.4

Happy to be with you.

0:45.6

Look, we witnessed something this week that Joe Biden repeatedly told the American people he would never do.

0:50.7

He preemptively pardoned members of his own family, five of them. This comes after he did something else. He swore he wouldn't do. He preemptively pardoned members of his own family, five of them. This comes after he did

0:56.5

something else he swore he wouldn't do, pardon his own son Hunter. So first, we hear the term

1:01.8

unprecedented thrown around a lot, especially this last year. Is this indeed unprecedented?

1:07.5

Yeah, there's no example in American history of a family member of a sitting president being pardoned, no less five members of the family, or six if you include Hunter. Also, these sort of preemptive pardons are really unprecedented as well, and those will probably be tested in court.

1:24.6

Yeah, to assume so. Now, we've covered the Hunter pardon at length here. In fact, we had you on to talk about it at one point.

1:30.3

We now have five more members of the Biden family.

1:33.3

And again, like you said, these are preemptive pardon, so different and kind.

1:36.3

First, who exactly did he grant this blanket immunity to?

1:40.3

These are essentially his siblings and their spouses and his son and his daughter.

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