Will Biden PARDON Hillary Clinton? ‘The View’ Asks Bill Clinton AWKWARD Question

On The View Wednesday, former President Bill Clinton talked about a possible preemptive pardon for his wife, Hillary Clinton. Mr. President, Donald Trump will be returning to the White House unburdened by the pressure of re-election with sweeping immunity granted to him, I believe, by the Supreme Court and an alleged enemies list we're hearing. Do you think it would be wise of President Biden to preemptively pardon any potential targets? What about your wife, Hillary Clinton? She apparently is on Kash Patel's list. Yeah. Well, they got a problem with her because first she didn't do anything wrong. I guess if Kash Patel is determined to make one up, he could do it. But I think if President Biden wanted to talk to me about that, I would talk to him about it. But I don't think I should be giving public advice on the pardon power. And in other news, President Joe Biden is pardoning the sentences of 39 nonviolent people and commuting the sentences of 1500 others. This is the largest single day act of clemency in modern American history, even more than President Obama. Now, let's be clear with those who are getting a second chance, those 1500 individuals. They had been under home confinement since the pandemic and rehabilitated back into their communities. In 2020, the CARES Act was enacted that allowed for extended home confinement for certain prisoners when COVID-19 was spiking. But reactions online are mixed while some are praising the president for taking this action, saying, thank you, sir, and good to give them a second chance. Others are less happy. One tweet reads, the family, friends, pardons are here. How much money are you making on these pardons, Did Hillary Clinton pay for her pardon yet? Be careful, she may pay you in different ways. So that question, Bill Clinton got Niall at the beginning of the segment from the view, it was almost like unkind to put him in the position of having to say whatever he was going to say about that was going to end up being controversial. I think he mostly did it fine, but he shouldn't have even said, oh, yeah, we talked to Joe Biden about that. Just say Hillary Clinton did nothing wrong. And I don't expect them to go after her because she's completely innocent. And that's that. I know. I mean, it's tricky, particularly when he's asked on this kind of chit chat kind of view type style to be just give a very formalized answer. You know, he could easily have ruled it out. And he didn't do that. And in terms of Clinton is doing them no favors. Bill Clinton has not done Hillary Clinton many favors a lot of times during, you know, her political career. I mean, marriage. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's also true in a very different way. But I mean, even back in 2008, when there was the famous primary between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, Bill Clinton often played a rather counterproductive role in that. This is right. It was like you're going to get me in the White House. It's like two presidents for one. And people are like, really? I don't know that we're so we're so sure about that. There was also I mean, Bill Clinton has a history of far more serious failures of judgment regarding his wife than this, even in terms of the legal picture, because I don't know if you remember it was back in 2016. Remember that he was his plane and the then attorney general's plane, Loretta Lynch, were side by side at an airport in Phoenix at the time that the her emails were being investigated. And Bill Clinton popped in for a chat to the attorney general, unspecified about what the attorney general later said that she was increasingly uncomfortable about it. And it became this whole big palaver. The comments that he made on The View, I didn't think were anywhere near he was trying to wriggle out of, as you say, what was a difficult personal political story. Sure. Well, we are now getting pardons and mass mutations, which is something I wanted and something you wanted something progressives and libertarians can come together to support. Are there people who have served time or who have sentences that were disproportionate are no longer a danger to Americans or for whatever meaning that it's not even violent crimes they're accused of? Can they be let go to save money to prevent the overcrowding of our system to show mercy? These are all things that many Americans support and believe in, in at least abstract ideological terms, you know, in the case by case details that people argue over who's deserving or whether this person should remain behind bars and that sort of thing. I do wonder, I have to wonder whether he had planned to do this wave now this day or whether it is a plan to do this materialized in Biden's mind or in his team's mind after the harsh criticism over the Hunter Biden pardon, one of the lines of criticism being one I've made and I think you've made on the show that, well, I can pardon just about anyone and he's not done that. He's just pardoned his son. So maybe he's trying to take some of the sting, some of the bite out of that criticism by saying, no, we're pardoning, which I haven't looked specifically at the list, but I assume there's some non-violent or low-level drug offenders or something in there too. Yeah. I mean, I think the whole gulf between this and the Hunter Biden situation is by virtue of commuting this very large number of sentences, it is by its nature, almost a blanket action and therefore removes the suspicion of doing things for selfish motives or nefarious motives. Obviously the Hunter Biden thing was very separate from that. That was pardoning his own son in a way that he and his spokespeople had promised not to do and the rationale for it seemed to be more or less invented on the spot for something that was of benefit to Not that I care or am in a position to give like advice to Biden's communications team, but if they were going to do this all along, they should have announced them at the first time. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Or just, I'm pardoning a, all the people I'm pardoning, one of them is Hunter Biden. I guess it can get a separate explanation, but that would have removed the criticism that there's something selective about that. I don't know why they didn't do them at the same time, except maybe they didn't think of doing this until after they got that kind of criticism. I have no idea, but they would suggest to me or just suggest to me it was a badly thought out strategy. Yeah. It seems, I mean, it seems one of many badly thought out Biden strategies at the last, the weaning months of his presidency. But I mean, they announced the Hunter Biden thing on a Sunday evening. It naturally dominated the news for many days. A lot of Democrats were not enthused about it because of the degree to which it eroded the argument that they had been making as well as President Biden, which was that no people are not above the law. And then the president, you know, elevates his son above the law. That was not great. Yeah. We'll see if there are any more pardons to come while Biden remains president. He's got just a couple weeks left. When Trump's takes office, one of the things he did promise in order to get support from the libertarian party, he got a kind of level of informal support from my people. He spoke at their convention. He promised to put a libertarian in the cabinet. I'm not sure which of the picks specifically qualifies. There are certainly people who have been picked who have some libertarian impulses, but I don't, for instance, Kash Patel in some ways, Tulsi Gabbard in some ways, RFK Jr. in some ways, but very much not in other ways. So I'm not, maybe if you took aspects of them and amalgamated them into one person, you could say we have a libertarian in the cabinet. I mean, Linda McMahon's education views are probably aligned with libertarianism, but it's, she was not like a member of the party or something. But one of the other promises was to free Ross Ulbricht, who is considered by many libertarian party members to be essentially a political prisoner along the lines of Julian Assange or Edward Snowden or something like that. This was a man who ran a kind of dark web market where you could buy and sell, including illegal things, but he was not involved in the illegal selling of it. He just set up the market. And libertarians will argue that he was just, they threw the book at him in a very unfair way. The judge treated him as if he had been the one doing the illegal transactions. And he got, I think like life in prison or something like that. And he's been in prison for five, seven, eight, 10 years, something like that. And promised to free him. And is the assumption that it's out of the question that Biden would pardon? I hope Biden does it. I hope that would be fantastic, but Trump promised to do it. He promised to do it very early in his term. So there we will be counting the day. It will be, you know, we have six days into the Trump presidency. He's not pardoned yet. We're going to be upset. Well, but the libertarians will be very angry. We'll be so angry. We'll be dozens of us. We'll be marching in the street, numbering in the tens, but I'd be, I would be happy to have Biden do it or, or any of the other, I would, you know, Julian Assange is free, but should get a full presidential pardon. So he's able to travel to the United States or, you know, indication from law enforcement that they were not going to prosecute him for anything. More so. And, and Edward Snowden the same. That's what I would like to see. I mean, I don't want to cause rage on the part of Mr. Assange and Mr. Snowden's many hordes of online supporters, not least because their cases are now so far in the past that I can't remember all the specific details of it. I've thought that Assange was actually, did he not obtain information by helping someone hack into systems, which is a crime. That is not what he is suspected of. No, that would be, that was Chelsea Manning who gave him the information. He is not suspected of doing anything himself, illegal or surreptitious to obtain that information. Just like, you know, Pentagon papers and all that. I'm glad I did not make a stand against, against Assange. I believe that is the case. I'm like 92% sure. Because yes, the details are a little bit in the rear view mirror now. People can correct me in the comments if it's different, but we do like to see, you and I both like to see pardoning of people, people getting second chances. When justified. When justified, it's a good thing. More Rising right after this.