Did Joe Biden finally do something so egregious that even some CNN anchors won’t defend it? In a surprising move, Brianna Keilar, who is typically not shy about showing her left-wing bent, put Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) on the spot about the president’s recent pardon of his son.
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In a must-see moment, Keilar played a past clip of Goldman unequivocally proclaiming that there was no chance Joe Biden would ever issue a pardon to Hunter Biden. The Democrat congressman then started ranting about Donald Trump. CNN didn’t just play the clip, though. They left Goldman on screen in a corner box so that everyone watching could see his reaction.
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As you’ll see, the congressman quickly misleads the audience to try to escape his past statement, but to her credit, Keilar does not let him get away with it. Watch this.
KEILAR: In July of 2023, just after that plea deal fell through, this is what you said. I want to watch.
(Clip plays)
KARL: Do you think a pardon for his son would be a mistake?
GOLDMAN: Yes, and I don’t think there’s any chance that President Biden is going to do that, unlike his predecessor who pardoned all of his friends and anyone who had any access to him, and I think you see that in this case, where he kept on, and Merrick Garland kept on a Trump-appointed U.S. attorney to investigate the president’s son. If there is not an indication of the independence of the Department of Justice beyond that, I don’t know what we could look for.
KEILAR: What does that feel like, watching yourself back then reassuring people that Biden was not going to issue a pardon for his son?
GOLDMAN: Yeah, and I think if that plea agreement and that plea deal had gone through, there would be no pardon.
KEILAR: The plea deal had already fallen through.
(Goldman sits in silence for a moment)
GOLDMAN: Sorry?
KEILAR: When you reacted, this was when the deal had already fallen through.
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Goldman is such a slimy politician. Keilar denoted before playing the clip that it dated to after the plea deal fell through, yet the congressman attempted to suggest that his comments were made beforehand. Well yeah, I’m sure the Bidens would have been happy with Hunter Biden being given a ridiculous sweetheart deal in which he faces zero accountability, but that’s not what happened, and Goldman insisted after that point that Joe Biden would not pardon his son. “I don’t think there’s any chance” is not ambiguous. It doesn’t leave wiggle room.
Further, Goldman then played off his assertion to attack Trump, suggesting that anyone who would issue pardons to “his friends” is corrupt. It was a naked partisan attack that avoided all context to promote Joe Biden as a beacon of honesty and virtue. That all came crashing down on Sunday evening when it was revealed he had pardoned Hunter Biden.
Goldman is on video saying that it would be a mistake for Joe Biden to do that. Now that he’s done it, the Democrat wants to try to rewrite history and carve out an excuse. It doesn’t wash, though. It was Goldman who claimed in that 2023 exchange that Merrick Garland pursuing charges against Hunter Biden with a “Trump-appointed U.S. attorney” was proof of the “independence of the Department of Justice.” That flies in the face of the reasoning provided by Joe Biden as to why he issued the pardon.
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As RedState reported, the president claimed that the DOJ had been politically weaponized against his son. So which is it? Does Goldman think AG Garland and his cohorts are completely fair and independent, or was the pardon justified? Because he doesn’t get to have it both ways despite his best efforts.
SEE: Joe Biden Has Pardoned Hunter Biden
Democrats are stuck. They spent years defending Biden as something he wasn’t and never has been. Now, they have to eat the excrement sandwich served up to them by the outgoing president. They could have been upfront with the American people and said they simply don’t know what Joe Biden will do. Instead, they used the assertion that he would never pardon Hunter Biden as a way to attack Republicans for political gain. It has thoroughly backfired, and no one should feel sorry for them.
With that said, I’ll leave you with this question: What in the world did Goldman do to his hair?