Sunny Hostin And Joy Behar Do Rhetorical Gymnastics To Excuse Biden Family Pardons

[Ubiquitous]

Sunny Hostin and Joy Behar, cohosts of ABC News’ “The View,” opened
Wednesday’s broadcast of the midday talk show by defending former President
Joe Biden’s 11th-hour pardons for several of his family members.

Hostin and Behar, both of whom have repeatedly accused President Donald Trump
of weaponizing the Justice Department, made excuse after excuse for the
blanket pardons Biden issued just moments prior to leaving the White House
for the final time.

Hostin began the conversation by complaining about Trump’s decision to pardon
nearly all of those who’d been charged in relation to January 6, claiming
that it was out of bounds for him to pardon people who were guilty of
“violence toward law enforcement.”

As Newsbusters’ Nick Fondacaro noted, Hostin defended Black Lives Matter
protesters despite the damage they did and lobbied hard for Vice President
Kamala Harris even though she’d supported a progressive non-profit that
bailed out violent rioters in 2020.

WATCH:

Joy Behar defends Biden's corruption and abuse of power in gifting
blanket pardons to his family. Her excuse? "Joe Biden lost two other
children. He lost two children. So to be in the position and not
protect the one child he has." pic.twitter.com/l03cZ4WYsa

— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) January 22, 2025

When cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin raised the specter of Biden’s pardons,
saying that the former president had damaged his own legacy when he chose to
issue them, Behar jumped in to do damage control.

“Joe Biden lost two other children. He lost two children. So to be in the
position and not protect the one child that he has …” Behar said, clearly
referencing the pardon Biden issued to his embattled son Hunter.

Griffin pushed back, noting that she was referring to the pardons issued on
Monday to his siblings and in-laws.

Hostin interrupted, saying that Biden was only responding to extreme
circumstances and trying to protect his family from a president “on a revenge
tour.”

Cohost Sara Haines argued that she could understand where Biden was coming
from, even if pardoning his family members might send a message that was not
optimal.

“Whenever I see something like this I try to parse out how would I feel in
their shoes … knowing what Donald Trump is capable of and what he said he
would do … even at the expense of weakening [American institutions] I would
say at least protect my family,” Haines explained.

WATCH:

The View cast tries to shout down Alyssa Farah Griffin after she
notes Trump had refused to give blanket preemptive pardons in his
first time.
Fake Republican Ana Navarro defends Biden by arguing that he did
it "on his last day" in office. pic.twitter.com/CDchG5w2JY

— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) January 22, 2025

Griffin tried once more, arguing that even Trump had backed away from issuing
blanket pardons to family members and key allies — despite Democrats and
media insisting he was likely to do so — in the final hours of his first term
in the White House.

Cohost Ana Navarro complained that the two presidents’ actions were not in
any way comparable, saying that Biden was less of a problem because he had
waited until the very last day to issue the pardons he’d repeatedly promised
not to issue, while Trump had made good on day one on his campaign promise to
issue pardons for most of those charged over the January 6 riot.

[BTR1701]

Sunny Hostin and Joy Behar, cohosts of ABC News' THE VIEW, opened
Wednesday's broadcast of the midday talk show by defending former President
Joe Biden's 11th-hour pardons for several of his family members.
Hostin and Behar, both of whom have repeatedly accused President Donald Trump
of weaponizing the Justice Department, made excuse after excuse for the
blanket pardons Biden issued just moments prior to leaving the White House
for the final time.
Hostin began the conversation by complaining about Trump's decision to pardon
nearly all of those who’d been charged in relation to January 6, claiming
that it was out of bounds for him to pardon people who were guilty of
"violence toward law enforcement".

They're all concerned about people who were violent toward law enforcement
getting a break when it involves Trump, but have you heard them utter a single
word about Biden's last minute commutation of Leonard Peltier, the American
Indian activist who literally executed two FBI agents?

Nor do they seem to care that two weeks prior to Jan6, a mob of hundreds of
Antifa and other leftist protesters tried to violently force their way into
the White House. The only difference between that and Jan6 is that the Secret
Service held the line at the White House and kept the mob out. But 40+ agents
and officers had to be taken to the hospital for various injuries, some
serious. For some reason, the media and the self-righteous Dem pols only care
about hurt cops when they’re hurt by Republican protesters. FPP in particular,
here on RAT, twisted himself into pretzels of illogic trying to spin why Jan6
was the "worst thing evah!" while poo-pooing the leftist attack on the White
House.

Most people don't even know about the Antifa mob attack because the media
never mentions it, while they spent the last half decade barely going five
minutes without crying about Jan6.

[The Horny Goat]

Post by BTR1701
They're all concerned about people who were violent toward law enforcement
getting a break when it involves Trump, but have you heard them utter a single
word about Biden's last minute commutation of Leonard Peltier, the American
Indian activist who literally executed two FBI agents?

I confess I still see red when I hear the word "executed" to refer to
a homicide committed by someone not acting on part of the state.

Because no question Leonard Peltier was about the last person I would
expect to be recruited by any state constabulary.

[BTR1701]

Post by The Horny Goat

Post by BTR1701
They're all concerned about people who were violent toward law enforcement
getting a break when it involves Trump, but have you heard them utter a single
word about Biden's last minute commutation of Leonard Peltier, the American
Indian activist who literally executed two FBI agents?

I confess I still see red when I hear the word "executed" to refer to
a homicide committed by someone not acting on part of the state.

It's a common term not limited to state action. The mob, in particular, was
known for its "execution-style" murders.

Or those who were guillotined during the French Revolution. They were
executing state officials but they weren't state officials themselves.

Or those who are lined up and shot or beheaded by groups like ISIS or al-Qaeda
or the Taliban. Those are executions but the killers aren't government
officials.

[The Horny Goat]

Post by BTR1701

Post by The Horny Goat

Post by BTR1701
They're all concerned about people who were violent toward law enforcement
getting a break when it involves Trump, but have you heard them utter a single
word about Biden's last minute commutation of Leonard Peltier, the American
Indian activist who literally executed two FBI agents?

I confess I still see red when I hear the word "executed" to refer to
a homicide committed by someone not acting on part of the state.

It's a common term not limited to state action. The mob, in particular, was
known for its "execution-style" murders.
Or those who were guillotined during the French Revolution. They were
executing state officials but they weren't state officials themselves.
Or those who are lined up and shot or beheaded by groups like ISIS or al-Qaeda
or the Taliban. Those are executions but the killers aren't government
officials.

While I understand your point I strongly disagree with it.

[BTR1701]

Sunny Hostin and Joy Behar, cohosts of ABC News' THE VIEW, opened
Wednesday's broadcast of the midday talk show by defending former President
Joe Biden's 11th-hour pardons for several of his family members.
Hostin and Behar, both of whom have repeatedly accused President Donald Trump
of weaponizing the Justice Department, made excuse after excuse for the
blanket pardons Biden issued just moments prior to leaving the White House
for the final time.
Hostin began the conversation by complaining about Trump's decision to pardon
nearly all of those who'd been charged in relation to January 6, claiming
that it was out of bounds for him to pardon people who were guilty of
"violence toward law enforcement".

Here's one for the leftists who keep insisting that the Jan6 attack on the
Capitol was 'unprecedented' and that pardoning them was inappropriate because
it's the one building in America immune from attack because it's some 'holy
site of democracy' or something and that a crowd pushing inside the building
was literally worse than 9/11, Hitler, Pearl Harbor, pancreatic cancer, the
eruption of Mount Vesuvius, shark attacks, and AIDS:

In 2001, Bill Clinton commuted the sentences of Weather Underground members
Linda Evans* and Susan Rosenberg,** who participated in the 1983 attempted
assassination of Republican senators by bombing the U.S. Capitol. (There's
that precedent that leftists and their media enablers seem to have missed.)

And Clinton did so at the behest of Democrat Rep. Jerry Nadler (a man who is
at least 50% pants) and calls "Jan 6 the worst thing evah". This is the same
Jerry Nadler who, in his role as House Judiciary chair, has been among the
most vocal in Congress in his fury at the Capitol chaos of January 6 and who
outrageously compared it to Pearl Harbor and 9-11 in terms of its seriousness
in American history. Yet radical leftists who actually bombed the Capitol and
tried to assassinate members of Congress, he lobbied to have pardoned.



*In furtherance of her goal to "liberate America from white oppression", Linda
Evans participated in a 1981 Brinks armored truck robbery, in which two police
officers and a guard were killed. She was also convicted for conspiracy and
malicious destruction in connection with eight bombings, including the 1983
United States Senate bombing.

**After living as a fugitive for three years, Susan Rosenberg was arrested in
1984 while in possession of a large cache of explosives and firearms,
including automatic weapons, and written plans for prospective violent attacks
on government buildings and personnel. She was also sought as an accomplice in
the 1979 prison escape of BLA terrorist and cop-killer Assata Shakur and in
the 1981 Brink's robbery that resulted in the deaths of two police officers
and a guard.

Note: Clinton also pardoned 16 members of FALN, a Puerto Rican terrorist group
responsible for dozens of robberies, bombings, and other acts of violence.
Weird how all the people who were having screaming meltdowns over Trump's
pardon of "people who were guilty of violence toward law enforcement" seem to
conveniently forget the history Democrats have of going easy on cop-killers
and assassins.


[Rest of this space left blank for moviePig to spin his latest fairy tale
about how that was somehow 'different'. Even though it occurred in the holy of
holies-- the Capitol Building, the one structure in America that enjoys a post
hoc exemption from the "mostly peaceful" rioting and destruction that had
become de rigeuer and justified by the Left for the previous two years.]