Jill Biden Admits Family Feared Trump Would Target Hunter
“When Trump was elected, things changed, and we knew that he would target Hunter. And we just could not let our son go to jail.”
Former First Lady Jill Biden is publicly defending Joe Biden’s controversial pardon of Hunter Biden, acknowledging for the first time that fear of political targeting, not legal principle, drove the decision that reversed years of the president’s own public pledges.
In an interview with CBS News‘ Rita Braver set to air Sunday, Jill Biden said she fully supported the pardon after concluding that the Justice Department’s posture toward Hunter changed once Donald Trump won the 2024 election
“And then the Justice Department changed. And I think that the process was not fair to Hunter. When Trump was elected, things changed, and we knew that he would target Hunter. And we just could not let our son go to jail on a charge that no one would go, I mean, no one has ever gone to jail for.”
The admission is striking given that Joe Biden had repeatedly and publicly pledged not to pardon his son, then did exactly that in the final weeks of his presidency, granting Hunter a sweeping pardon covering a broad scope of potential federal liability.
Although President Joe Biden had said he would not pardon his son, Hunter, Jill Biden says he changed his mind once Donald Trump was elected. She talked with Sunday Morning's Rita Braver about the pardon and her concerns over her family being targeted by the Trump administration.… pic.twitter.com/OCIDDap2sd
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Hunter Biden’s legal exposure was substantial: he was convicted in June 2024 on three felony counts for lying on federal firearms paperwork about his drug use when purchasing a revolver, and separately pleaded guilty to nine tax-related charges.
Those convictions were the product of a years-long investigation that predated Trump’s return to office, a fact that complicates the “targeting” narrative considerably. The pardon drew bipartisan condemnation precisely because it contradicted Biden’s stated position that no president should use executive clemency to shield family members from lawful prosecution
Jill Biden was unequivocal about her role in the decision.
“I truly supported it. I wanted him to pardon Hunter at that point, and I agreed with Joe.”
She also defended the administration’s decision to issue preemptive pardons to other Biden family members before the inauguration, covering conduct for which no charges had even been filed.
“I suppose for the same reason that he felt that they would be targeted.”
The interview comes as Jill Biden promotes her new memoir, View from the East Wing: A Memoir. The renewed attention has frustrated Democratic strategists and officials, who argue it distracts from current political battles, reopens controversies the party would prefer to leave behind, and undermines efforts to move on from the Biden era entirely.
The CBS interview represents the most candid public accounting yet from the Biden family on the pardon’s rationale: not a vindication of Hunter’s innocence, but a calculated judgment that the incoming administration would weaponize the Justice Department against him, and that the family chose to act first.
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“Target” him? Fu*k you, c*nt! Your family “targeted” Trump and his family with brazen government harassment and lawfare for nearly a decade. You’re lucky all your heads aren’t adorning pikes on the capital grounds, you feckless, power mongering bit*h.
Target Hunter?
Don’t make me laugh. I’ll tell you somebody who knows what it is to be targeted—Trump.
“Fu*k you, c*nt! … you feckless, power mongering bit*h.”
Don’t go so easy on her.
Can the government confiscate money obtained illegally even if the criminal was pardoned?
It’s unclear. Because forfeiture is a civil process against the property itself rather than the owner, the government could argue that the owner was pardoned but the property was not. That the illegal activity still occurred, even though the owner is not liable for it.
Ah, thank you, Jill. Now that i know i can’t go to jail for smoking crack, hiring hookers and laundering money, I know what my retirement business is going to be. Um, so you think we could get the auto-pen to sign my pardon? /s
What really happened was that after snorting half liter of crack cocaine, he began to cough and said “Pardon me.”
And joe said, “Okay.”
At least according to some reports, Hunter’s pardon was one of the few, and possibly the only, pardon Biden actually physically signed.
They don’t call it the Biden Crime Family for nothing.
Time to shut down this harpy and the drip drip drip of her “memories.”
Wonder how much time she spent practicing that fake facial expression to go with the fake “I thought he was having a stroke…I was scared to death,” statement.
It’s called “resting bitch” (“face” optional).
Uhhh.
There are a whole lot of state and local crimes on that laptop that the federal pardon doesn’t cover.
Crickets.
The fix is deep.
Absolutely.
Republicans are just waiting for the statute of limitations on them to get within about a week of expiring, so they can tell us “they tried.”
Jill admits the family feared Trump would……..
Ah hah. So she admits that they knew Kamala would lose the election.
But they didn’t fear that.
What they really feared was that the country would find out Biden was so cognitively impaired that he couldn’t dress himself.
Um, Kamala had already lost the election. And it no longer mattered what the country knew about Biden’s condition.
There are probably many other Bidens that can be target and prosecuted. The whole family is likely dirty. All we have to do is look at who wasn’t pardoned and start there.
All we have to do is investigate those who were pardoned. Then bring them in for questioning regarding their activities and the activities of others. If they pursues themselves indict and incarcerate.
The pardon removes self incrimination. It doesn’t remove prosecutions of knowledge of crimes of others who also participated.
Build a tower of facts, question under oath about their known knowledge of other criminal acts, and let them hang themselves.
No, there aren’t.
And they all got pardons. If one of them wasn’t pardoned, that’s the best indication that they were clean, and so didn’t need one.
So, this “memoir” will be in the Fiction section?
More likely the Walmart discount book barrel with a “50% Off” sticker plastered over her face.
No, memoirs by definition are non-fiction, no matter how far they deviate from the truth. “Fiction” is not synonymous with “fabricated”; it refers to a specific kind of fabrication, which works published as memoirs generally are not. Unless they’re the memoirs of fictional characters.
For instance books on astrology contain no truth, but they are non-fiction.
“And then the Justice Department changed. And I think that the process was not fair to Hunter.”
But before it changed? Perfectly fair to Trump!
Like you went after Trump.
As a mark of depravity, it is difficult to out-do a Kennedy. Hunter has proven his prowess as an unparalleled scumbag of the first order. His nearest close competition is a dead ringer for every that Kennedy depravity stands for in the person of Princess Caroline’s idiot of his owl realm, Stupid Jack. This one is so awful that it would not surprise me if the dug Mary’s relocated casket and put her is his own backyard.
It’s worth noting that they’ve determined that literally the ONLY pardon actually signed by Biden rather than the autopen was Hunter’s.
The utterly vile, despicable and evil reprobate, Hunter Biden, is now content to mingle with the equally vile, despicable and evil Candace Owens, and contemptibly blame Israeli Jews for his and the wretched Biden clan’s avarice, corruption, entitlement, treason and ill-gotten, filthy lucre.
The Dhimmi-crats’ well-worn playing card of alleged/contrived/fallaciously asserted victimhood and grievance, dealt from the bottom of their tattered and greasy deck. Perennially falsely blaming other parties, to deflect from their own brazen and glaring corruption, mendacity, avarice and ill-gotten pecuniary gains.
“Convicted felon Hunter Biden…”
That’s how he should be referred to for the rest of time.
I am at a loss as to what Lady McBiden is up to. Nothing she has said in her press junket has helped anyone and Dems just wish she would shut up and go away. Surely she hasn’t burned through all the millions her husband grifted already?
A charge “no one has gone to jail for”? Like tax evasion? Lying on an ATF form? Sure, plenty of people have gone to jail with those charges.
One of the luckiest men in the world – her ex husband.
And that is an outright lie. Plenty of people regularly go to jail for the crimes Hunter was accused of.
It reminds me of ~1997 when Democrats were trying to convince us that no one is ever prosecuted for perjury in a civil case, or that no one is ever prosecuted for perjury about their sex lives, or at least that no one is ever prosecuted for the two together, i.e. perjury about their sex lives in a civil case, and therefore it’s not really a big deal.
The NY Times — which at the time wasn’t completely in the Democrat tank, at least relative to how it is now — did its homework (a word foreign to its current staff) and found eight people who were at that very time sitting in federal prisons for perjury about their sex lives in civil cases. if Clinton had had any sense of shame, the least he could have done was commute their sentences, but he just ignored it.