CNN’s Brianna Keiler confronted Rep. Dan Goldman (R-NY) with a July 2023 clip of him saying President Joe Biden would not pardon Hunter.
The best part is that CNN kept Goldman on the screen so we could see his reaction:
BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN: You went out on a limb by backing up Biden when he said there would not be a pardon in July of 2023, just after that plea deal fell through. This is what you said. I want to watch.QUESTION: Do you think a pardon for his son would be a mistake?REP. DAN GOLDMAN: Yes. And I don’t think there’s any chance that President Biden is going to do that, unlike his predecessor, who pardoned all of his friends and anyone who had any access to him… And I think you see that in this case, where he kept on — and Merrick Garland kept on — a Trump-appointed U.S. attorney to investigate the president’s son. If there is not an indication of the independence of the Department of Justice beyond that, I don’t know what we could look for.BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN: I mean, what does that feel like, watching yourself back then reassuring people that Biden was not going to issue a pardon for his son?REP. DAN GOLDMAN: Yeah, and I think that if that plea agreement and that plea deal had gone through, there would be no pardon.That was a satisfactory outcome already fallen.BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN: It had already fallen through… When you reacted, this was when the deal had fallen through. And I hear what you’re saying about the Kash Patel appointment, but you know, you took him at his word. So what does that feel like, knowing that he’s gone back on it?REP. DAN GOLDMAN: Well, as I said, I’m disappointed that after the plea fell through and it became clear about why it did — including Republican congressional intervention in this case, which made this case very unique and very different from any other case — I think that we all, perhaps I should have as well, recognized that this is not the normal prosecution. I said many times that if Hunter Biden were not Hunter Biden, he would never be charged with these crimes.When you start to see what Donald Trump is planning to do with his Department of Justice and with his FBI, and the degree to which Hunter Biden has already been shamelessly attacked as a private citizen by Republicans, I certainly understand why the president felt like this miscarriage of justice should not carry forward, and that he should not be at risk of retributive prosecution for political reasons, which is not the proper way to execute our rule of law.
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