Former President Joe Biden said he was “concerned” about Donald Trump giving preemptive pardons of family members, according to a resurfaced interview from 2020.
Critics immediately tore into the former intel boss, with one calling him a “pathetic liar” about the laptop’s provenance.
Washington — President Trump took executive action Monday to start revoking the security clearances of his former national security adviser, John Bolton, and dozens of intelligence officials who signed a letter in 2020 claiming emails found on a laptop owned by Hunter Biden bore the hallmarks of a Russian disinformation campaign.
The Tennessean’s proposed 28th Amendment would bar the president from pardoning himself, his close relatives (and their spouses), members of his administration, and those who worked on his campaign staff. These restrictions are straightforward and easy to interpret and would have eliminated many of the most egregious pardons by Biden.
Trump took the action after the former officials said in 2020 that leaks from Hunter Biden laptop could be "a Russian information operation."
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday revoking the security clearance of 51 former intelligence officials who signed a 2020 letter arguing that emails from a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden carried “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation” and that of his former national security adviser John Bolton.
Before President Biden issued pardons for his family members, the media took aim at President Trump for floating the idea of preemptive pardons before he left office in 2021.
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Trump pardoned about 1,500 people who were charged for their actions during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. That number includes 172 who pleaded guilty to assaulting law enforcement officers. Graham, however, points out that Trump said he would grant the pardons if he was reelected.