‘He Ruined A Lot Of Fam­i­lies’: Char­la­m­agne Fires Back At Caller Who Says Biden Spent Career ‘Serv­ing’ Amer­i­cans

Radio host Char­la­m­agne Tha God chal­lenged a caller on Tues­day who defend­ed Pres­i­dent Joe Biden’s decades-long polit­i­cal career and recent par­don of his son, Hunter Biden.

Biden par­doned Hunter on Sun­day fol­low­ing months of pledg­ing that he would not inter­vene after a Delaware jury con­vict­ed his son in June. A caller on “The Break­fast Club” jus­ti­fied the par­don by say­ing Biden real­ized after a long career of ser­vice that “his fam­i­ly was most impor­tant,” but Char­la­m­agne argued the president’s poli­cies have harmed many Amer­i­can fam­i­lies. (RELATED: Andy McCarthy Says Hunter Biden Was Par­doned On Charges That ‘No Amer­i­can’ Would A Catch A Break On)

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“Man, I’m a father of six — two boys, four girls. Joe Biden had 40 years in office serv­ing all of us … It took him that long to under­stand that his fam­i­ly was most impor­tant, so that’s what he had to take care of,” the caller said. “He’s 80 years old, man. He got to look out for his fam­i­ly, man. He ain’t ’bout to die and his son in prison. Come on, man. I’m gone.”

“Well, you’re wrong about him being — yes, he’s been in pol­i­tics for that long, but he’s ruined a lot of fam­i­lies because of leg­is­la­tion like the ’86 Anti-Drug Abuse Act, which intro­duced manda­to­ry min­i­mum sen­tences for crack cocaine, and the ’94 Crime Bill,” Char­la­m­agne respond­ed. “He’s the proud author of those bills, so he ruined a lot of fam­i­lies with that type of leg­is­la­tion.”

Biden co-spon­sored the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988, which strength­ened prison sen­tences for drug pos­ses­sion. He also authored the 1994 crime bill, which some experts say con­tributed to sys­temic racism.

Char­la­m­agne also sug­gest­ed Biden should “par­don every­body in fed­er­al prison for a non­vi­o­lent weed offense,” claim­ing it would “help [his] lega­cy, which is in sham­bles right now.”

Biden announced in Oct. 2022 that he was “par­don­ing all pri­or fed­er­al offens­es of sim­ple mar­i­jua­na pos­ses­sion,” say­ing “no one should be in jail just for using or pos­sess­ing mar­i­jua­na.” He lat­er expand­ed the par­dons 2023, accord­ing to the Jus­tice Depart­ment.

The radio host told The New York Times in May that black vot­ers may shift to sup­port­ing then-for­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump in part due to the crim­i­nal jus­tice reform he passed as pres­i­dent. Trump signed the bipar­ti­san First Step Act in 2018, which sought to short­en sen­tences for non­vi­o­lent drug offend­ers.

“There’s peo­ple who actu­al­ly saw fam­i­ly mem­bers and peo­ple they love actu­al­ly get out of prison,” Char­la­m­agne said at the time.

“You can­not bring up Pres­i­dent Biden with­out talk­ing about the ’86 manda­to­ry min­i­mum sen­tenc­ing, the ’88 crack laws and the ’94 crime bill,” he added. “If peo­ple go back and watch my con­ver­sa­tion with Joe Biden on ‘The Break­fast Club,’ I said to him, the ’94 crime bill led to mass incar­cer­a­tion and he goes, no, it was manda­to­ry min­i­mum sen­tenc­ing, and I go, yeah, and you were behind that one too!”

Biden assert­ed that Hunter was “sin­gled out” in the legal process due to their rela­tion­ship in his state­ment announc­ing the par­don. Char­la­m­agne refut­ed the claim on Mon­day, say­ing Hunter “was sin­gled out because he broke the law” and “had an ille­gal gun and tax eva­sion charges.”

The radio host also claimed Mon­day that Democ­rats lack moral supe­ri­or­i­ty over Repub­li­cans after Biden issued the par­don.

“I just want Democ­rats to stop act­ing like they are on this moral high ground polit­i­cal­ly when they have shown us they’re not. You know, whether it’s skip­ping the pri­ma­ry process when Biden had stepped down and things like Biden par­don­ing his son,” he said. “Stop act­ing like y’all are the pure par­ty and Repub­li­cans aren’t.”

More­over, Char­la­m­agne ques­tioned whether Biden ever gen­uine­ly thought Trump was “a threat to democ­ra­cy” or “a fas­cist” due to the president’s rhetoric fol­low­ing the president-elect’s vic­to­ry.

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