Allies criticize Biden for saying several times that he would not forgive his son

President Joe Biden’s decision to pardon his son Hunter, made public in a lengthy statement Sunday night, has left some former senior aides furious.

Some are wondering why the president has chosen to say on multiple occasions that he would never take such action.

Several officials who recently worked for Biden told CNN who personally never believed it when the president — and White House aides speaking on his behalf — insisted in recent months that a pardon for Hunter Biden was out of the question.

“Anyone who was near the top knew he was probably going to do it. Why do we pretend otherwise?” said a former West Wing senior aide.

Another former senior White House official said that they and others around them were “sure” that Joe Biden would eventually pardon Hunter, while another former administration official put it this way: “It was extremely, painfully obvious that this was where the things would end.”

Biden’s public decision this weekend and issuance of a sweeping “full and unconditional” pardon for his son now has some of those same Democrats wondering why he insisted he would not take action that seemed simply inevitable to so many in around the president.

“I wonder if there was a way to be less about it and more like, ‘We’re not spending our time thinking about this,’” the former administration official said.

The former White House West Wing senior adviser echoed that sentiment, saying there were several ways Biden could have left the door open to a pardon rather than ruling out its possibility entirely.

“Couldn’t he have been super honest?” they asked. “Like, ‘I don’t know, I can’t answer right now.’”

This content was originally published in Allies criticize Biden for saying several times that he would not forgive his son on the CNN Brasil website.

Source: CNN Brasil

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