Trump links Hunter Biden's pardon to Jan. 6 rioters
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🗓️ 3 December 2024
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USA TODAY Justice Department Correspondent Bart Jansen breaks down the varied responses to President Joe Biden's pardon of his son Hunter Biden.
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| 0:00.0 | Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to USA Today's The Excerpt, Ad-Free, right now. |
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| 0:12.6 | Good morning. I'm Taylor Wilson, and today is Tuesday, December 3, 2024. |
| 0:18.1 | This is the excerpt. |
| 0:25.2 | Today, how Trump and others are responding in the wake of the surprising Hunter Biden pardoned, plus how some Mexicans' views are hardening on immigration, |
| 0:30.6 | and how would Trump tariffs impact American consumers? President-elect Donald Trump didn't |
| 0:37.2 | criticize the Hunter Biden pardon, but he said defendants |
| 0:40.3 | in the January 6th Capitol riot deserved pardons as well. I caught up with USA Today Justice |
| 0:45.5 | Department correspondent Bart Jansen for more on that and other reactions in the wake of President |
| 0:50.8 | Joe Biden's decision to pardon his son, who was convicted of federal gun |
| 0:54.8 | felonies and federal tax charges earlier this year. |
| 0:58.1 | Bart, hello, sir. |
| 0:59.0 | Hey, thanks for having me. |
| 1:00.3 | Thanks for coming on today, Bart. |
| 1:01.7 | So another busy week here. |
| 1:03.6 | We had heard that the president was not expected to kind of follow this course of action. |
| 1:08.1 | How surprising was this move from President Biden? And really, what are you |
| 1:11.5 | hearing from legal experts there on the ground? Well, it was a big reversal for Biden. He had said |
| 1:16.0 | repeatedly that he was not going to pardon his son. He gave an exclusive interview to ABC News in |
| 1:21.6 | June saying, no, he wasn't going to pardon him. He replied with a staccato no when asked by a group of reporters during June whether |
| 1:30.6 | he was considering a pardon. His White House press secretary, Corinne Jean-Pierre, has said |
| 1:36.9 | repeatedly in the following months that there was no thought of pardons and that the answer hadn't |
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