After CNN Panel Calls Trump Corrupt, They Are Reminded that Biden Pardoned His Entire Family

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A CNN panel on Wednesday did what CNN panels usually do: They attacked Donald Trump.

This particular panel accused the President of being corrupt for inviting investors in his memecoin to a dinner, according to a recent story in the New York Times.

That's when Joe Borelli, the former Republican leader of the New York City Council, reminded them that the last president, Democrat Joe Biden, had actually taken the unprecedented step of pardoning his entire family.

Borelli told the panel, “I looked for, in this New York Times article, the allegation of corruption, what was the crime that was being accused. Was it inappropriate? Yeah, maybe you could argue that."

He continued, “But it’s not illegal and I damn well will play what-about-ism when you had a culture for four years that was so bad, that the president’s final act while he was gumming his eggs and his wife was doing the job was to pardon his entire family."

Borelli had a point. Those pardons were next level corruption.

"So yes, I will play what-about-ism when the last president was so corrupt that he had to pardon, in advance, his entire family," Borelli added.

Panelist, Democrat Connecticut Rep. Jim Hines tried to zero in on Borelli's supposed 'what-about-ism,' “This is something that only the president can do in virtue to his position. But again, we gotta get off of the what-about-ism."

Hines continued, “Look, this goes back to Billy Carter, every presidency has had family members try to profit off of the president, but come on, there’s no way you can look at the Trump administration and say ‘he’s not taking everything to 11.’ The Hunter Biden stuff was unseemly, absolutely.” 

Biden pardoned his son Hunter Biden in early December, something he claimed beforehand that he would not do.

The president would then pardon his brothers and in-laws literally right before Trump was sworn in.

And he pardoned them all retroactively.

The Left can talk about corruption in the Trump administration.

But they really don't have a leg to stand on given their silence about Joe Biden's White House, one of the most corrupt administration's in history.

The Biden family pardons gave legal protection against “for any nonviolent offenses against the United States which they may have committed or taken part of during the period of January 1, 2014, through the date of this pardon.”

A blanket family pardon going back an entire decade.

As Joe Borelli noted, it wasn't exactly discernible what corrupt activity Trump engaged in in that New York Times story.

A president pardoning his whole family? That screams corruption on its face.