Whoopi Goldberg doesn't understand 'why people are clutching their pearls' because of Biden pardon
“The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg said Tuesday that she doesn’t understand “why people are clutching their pearls” about Hunter Biden’s pardon by his father, President Biden.
“This is his right as president,” Goldberg said on “The View,” in a clip highlighted by Mediaite. “He can pardon — if he wants to pardon Bozo the Clown, he can pardon Bozo the Clown.”
“So, I’m not sure why, again, why people are clutching their pearls, why the left is clutching their pearls,” she added.
Late Sunday, the president announced that he pardoned his son, Hunter Biden. The president argued in a statement that the charges brought against his son, which included three felony charges on his purchase and possession of a gun in 2018, came about due to political reasons.
“No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter’s cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my son – and that is wrong,” Biden said.
Many Republicans quickly expressed their furor with the president’s move, with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) referring to it as abusing the justice system.
“President Biden insisted many times he would never pardon his own son for his serious crimes,” Johnson said on X Monday. “But last night he suddenly granted a ‘Full and Unconditional Pardon’ for any and all offenses that Hunter committed for more than a decade! Trust in our justice system has been almost irreparably damaged by the Bidens and their use and abuse of it.”
However, Republicans were not the only ones who voiced their displeasure with Hunter Biden’s pardon, with a few Democrats including Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, Sen. Gary Peters (Mich.) and Sen. Peter Welch (Vt.) openly disagreeing with the move.
“I just wanna say, Democrats, you can’t have it both ways,” Goldberg said Tuesday. “You can’t have it both ways. You can’t let people tell you you’re not taking the moral ground when we take the moral ground all the time.”