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In his first interview after assuming the presidency, Donald Trump unleashed lethal attacks against his predecessor former US President Joe Biden. During a sit-down conversation with Fox News at the White House, Trump warned that it is “sad” that Biden did not pardon himself. The remarks from the President came when he was asked about the preemptive pardons Biden gave to his family members and some of Trump’s archnemesis.
The interview was aired on Fox News on Wednesday at 9 pm (local time). “This guy is running around giving everyone pardons,” Trump told Sean Hannity during their conversation in the White House. “The funny thing, maybe the sad thing, is he didn’t give himself a pardon. And if you look at it, it all had to do with him," he added.
The remarks from the president came two days after Biden issued several pardons in the final hours of his presidency on Monday. The pardons came since Trump declared that he would seek “retribution” against his perceived enemies by using his powers as president while on the campaign trail.
The Republican firebrand pointed out that Biden had bad advisors. “Joe Biden got very bad advice. Like he has in everything…Joe Biden has very bad advisers. Somebody advised Joe Biden to give pardons to everybody but him,” Trump said. When asked if Congress should investigate Biden, the president said that he would leave it up to Congress to take that call.
Trump claims he was given the option to pardon himself
During the interview, the president emphasised that Trump was given the option to pardon himself but he declined to do so. “I was given the option. They said sir, would you like to pardon everybody, including yourself?’ I said, ‘I’m not going to pardon anybody. We didn’t do anything wrong,’” Trump exclaimed.
He went on to comment on the legal scrutiny he faced when he was out of the office. “I went through four years of hell by this scum that we had to deal with. I went through four years of hell,” Trump said of his legal battles. “I spent millions of dollars in legal fees, and I won. But I did it the hard way. It’s really hard to say that they shouldn’t have to go through it also. It is very hard to say it.”
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More ShortsHe went on to defend pardoning nearly all of the roughly 1,500 defendants charged in connection to the Jan 6 riots in the Capitol Hill, which rocked the building in 2021. “Most of the people were absolutely innocent, okay? But forgetting all about that, these people have served horribly, a long time,” Trump said, adding that “it would be very, very cumbersome to go” through the roughly 1,500 individuals charged.
“Some of those people with the police, true, but they were very minor incidents, okay? You know that they get built up by that couple of fake guys that are on CNN all the time. They were very minor incidents. And it was time," he concluded.
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