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Trump hints Joe Biden was unwise not to pardon himself with cryptic warning

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President Donald Trump raised eyebrows with his thoughts about former President Joe BIden’s flurry of pardons before he left the White House.

Trump seemed to suggest that his predecessor made a mistake in not including himself in the profusion of blanket pardons he issued including to members of his own family. In his first sit-down interview since being inaugurated Monday, the 47th president made a cryptic comment as he spoke with Fox News host Sean Hannity.

While he didn’t directly say whether he believed Biden should be investigated, Trump thought the former president should have preemptively pardoned himself in the last-minute actions.

“This guy went around giving everybody pardons,” he said on “Hannity” Wednesday. “And you know, 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.”

“Joe Biden has very bad advisers,” he said later. “Somebody advised Joe Biden to give pardons to everybody but him.”

Trump noted how he had not pardoned himself or given out blanket pardons on the scale that Biden did when he left office after his first term.

“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 told Hannity.

Biden pardoned members of the House January 6 committee including ex-Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger as well as former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley, Sen. Adam Schiff, and Dr. Anthony Fauci. He also pardoned his siblings and their spouses,

“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, referring to the legal battles he faced since leaving office. “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.”

Speaking on potential investigations involving those pardoned by Biden, Trump noted that “Those people that he pardoned are now mandated, because they got a pardon, to testify, and they can’t take the 5th.”

“Look, he didn’t give himself a pardon, and he didn’t give some other people a pardon that needed it,” Trump said of Biden.

Hannity asked the president if he wanted Biden and his actions investigated.

“I think we’ll let Congress decide,” he replied.

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