Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) tried to distinguish the differences between former President Joe Biden’s controversial pardons and President Donald Trump‘s.
Trump spent his first hours in office issuing mass clemency for the 1,583 people who faced charges for their actions at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Meanwhile, Biden preemptively pardoned the members and witnesses of the defunct Jan. 6 committee, Gen. Mark Milley, Dr. Anthony Fauci, and his own siblings, their spouses, and his son, Hunter Biden.
“What I think is that [Biden] was worried that, given all of Trump’s rhetoric, that Trump was going to go after his family and close associates. All right, that’s a concern, but don’t equate the two,” Sanders said on CNN News’s The Source on Tuesday. “What Trump
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