Biden must ‘know something that other people do not’ on family pardons: Kevin McCarthy

Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said Monday that there’s a double standard when it comes to former President Joe Biden’s preemptive pardons of his family members and President Donald Trump‘s pardons of Jan. 6 rioters.

McCarthy was asked about the difference between the two swaths of pardons while being interviewed on NBC, according to a report. The former House speaker said the difference was Trump ran on pardoning Jan. 6 rioters, while Biden campaigned saying he would never pardon his son.

“This is the difference,” McCarthy said. “This president told the American public, while he was campaigning for office, ‘If I’m elected president, I will pardon these people.’ Compare this to Joe Biden, who said he would never pardon his son, who now, on the

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