Donald Trump is saying that Joe Biden should’ve thought about pardoning himself before he got up out of the office.
Trump’s been vocal about how he feels his old rival weaponized the justice department to settle scores, especially with those two federal indictments hanging over him in Florida and Washington. Now, it looks like Trump might be looking for some revenge.
“This guy went around giving everybody pardons,” Trump said about Biden, talking about those last-minute pardons he dropped on Monday morning. “And you know, the funny thing, maybe the sad thing, is he didn’t give himself a pardon.” Trump dropped that mysterious comment during an interview with Sean Hannity from Fox News in the Oval Office, which is set to air Wednesday at 9 p.m. EST. Earlier in the day, Fox released a minute-long teaser for the interview.
Trump’s latest comment came after Hannity delivered a question by saying, “Joe Biden ran and said he would never do preemptive pardons. It was an issue that came up when you were leaving the first time—”
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The president caught the vibe of the question and jumped in to cut Hannity off. Trump claimed he never thought about giving himself or his inner circle a preemptive pardon since he was confident they hadn’t done anything wrong.
“We had people that suffered,” Trump said of his allies. “They’re incredible patriots… You had [Steve] Bannon put in jail. You had Peter Navarro put in jail. You had people that suffered and—far worse than that—they’ve lost their fortunes. They’ve lost their whatever, their nest egg, paying it to lawyers and those people.”
