On Sunday, normally voluble Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D‑NY) was hilariously caught in a vise and resembled a talking parrot repeating itself as reporters questioned him about President Joe Biden’s pardon of his son, Hunter. Schumer dodged answering the questions while his Senate Democrat colleagues Cory Booker (D‑NJ), Dick Durbin (D‑IL) and Amy Klobuchar (D‑MN) stood uncomfortably behind him.
“Do you agree with some of your Democrat colleagues that President Biden pardoning Hunter Biden was wrong, unwise, and put personal interest ahead of unity?” a reporter asked.
“I got nothin’ for you on that,” Schumer dodged.
“Can I follow up on that? Are you concerned about the lack of transparency, the lack of honesty, around Biden’s decision to pardon his son?” another reporter queried.
“As I’ve said, I got nothin’ for you on that,” Schumer answered.
“Can I follow up on that, too?” the reporter persisted.
“Nope,” Schumer said defiantly.
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A third reporter asked, “Are you concerned that pardoning anyone on the way out of office, family members, sets a poor precedent?”
“Thank you. I’ve got nothing for you on that,” Schumer repeated.
A fourth reporter asked, “But the question is: You’ve talked about the January 6 pardons; this is a playbook for incoming President Trump, isn’t this a problem? Did he not establish a bad precedent for pardons?”
“I’ve got nothin’ for you on that. Any other subjects?” Schumer said.
Schumer is typically loquacious when it comes to other subjects, even going so far last March as to intervene in another country’s political process, calling for the Netanyahu government in Israel to be toppled in the middle of its desperate war with Hamas. Schumer made comments including, “The fourth major obstacle to peace is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu … he has shown zero interest in doing the courageous and visionary work required to pave the way for peace, even before this present conflict. … The Netanyahu coalition no longer fits the needs of Israel after October 7. … Nobody expects Prime Minister Netanyahu to do the things that must be done to break the cycle of violence …”
Or consider September 2022, when Schumer cursed Republicans who opposed President Biden’s White House’s student debt forgiveness plan. “Those damn Republicans!” Schumer raged. “They are bellyaching, you know, when anyone helps regular people. When they give tax cuts to the rich, they say they’re helping the middle class. When we help the middle class, they say we’re helping the rich.”
“They only want to help the rich,” Schumer continued. “The reason they don’t like this … this might mean their rich friends might have to pay a little more in taxes. Disgraceful, disgraceful, disgraceful.”