The View co-host Whoopi Goldberg won’t hear a bad word against Joe Biden.
On Tuesday’s edition of the ABC show, Goldberg got in a spat with fellow co-host and the show’s token “conservative,” Alyssa Farah Griffin, when discussing Biden’s decision to pardon his son Hunter on a variety of criminal charges.
The pardon absolves Hunter of any and all federal crimes committed between 2014 and 2024, including those that he may still be charged with.
The start date is the same year that Hunter joined the board of the Ukraine energy firm Burisma in an influence-peddling scheme allegedly involving his father.
Here is a transcript of the exchange:
GRIFFIN: I understand why you would do it, but I wonder if you understand why you lie about it for so long.
GOLDBERG: I would stop calling it a lie.
GRIFFIN: Okay, why repeatedly say you’re not going to and you do? And secondarily, for the part of this country, half of it that doesn’t support Biden, doesn’t know him personally, doesn’t get to have phone calls, and they’re just looking at a system that seems like it only benefits the people who are in power. What precedent does that set?
GOLDBERG: Well, here’s what it sets. It’s a precedent for all of us to open our eyes because we’ve elected someone who is in a similar situation, who didn’t have a drug problem, who knew what he was doing, who clearly stood and said, I can do this, and he did it.
So I think, for many, many reasons, this is very different than any other situation that we have ever dealt with.
Watch the clip below:
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In a statement on Sunday evening, Biden announced that he had changed his mind and would be using his presidential authority to issue a pardon to his troubled son.
“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 wrote.
“There has been an effort to break Hunter – who has been five and a half years sober, even in the face of unrelenting attacks and selective prosecution.”
“In trying to break Hunter, they’ve tried to break me – and there’s no reason to believe it will stop here,” he continued. “Enough is enough.”
