Fet­ter­man: Trump Should Be Par­doned, NYC Case Was ‘Polit­i­cal­ly Moti­vat­ed’

Sen­a­tor John Fet­ter­man (D‑PA) said Thurs­day on ABC’s “The View” that Pres­i­dent-elect Don­ald Trump should be par­doned for the New York City busi­ness records case because it was “polit­i­cal­ly moti­vat­ed.”

Co-host Joy Behar said, “Pres­i­dent Biden’s deci­sion to par­don his son Hunter is fac­ing bipar­ti­san back­lash, even the Democ­rats are all over it. But what do you think? Is it much ado about noth­ing? It is his son after all, and peo­ple do have sym­pa­thy for that but a lot of peo­ple are angry with him about it. What do you say?”

Fet­ter­man said, “I think it’s unde­ni­able that the case against Hunter Biden was real­ly polit­i­cal­ly moti­vat­ed, but I also think it’s true that the tri­al in New York for Trump, that was polit­i­cal as well. And in both cas­es, I think a par­don is appro­pri­ate and I real­ly think col­lec­tive­ly America’s con­fi­dence in these kind of insti­tu­tions have been dam­aged by these kinds of cas­es, and we can­not allow these kinds of insti­tu­tions to be weaponized against our polit­i­cal oppo­nents. And it’s very clear both tri­als were polit­i­cal­ly moti­vat­ed weaponized on the oth­er side.”

Behar said, “They’ll say that about the J6 peo­ple too, though, right? That’s what they’re going to say on the oth­er side, that that is weaponized also,” Behar said, refer­ring to the Jan. 6 Capi­tol riot­ers. There remains a loom­ing ques­tion as to whether Trump him­self will be par­don­ing those con­vict­ed over the riot when he gets back in office.”

Fet­ter­man said, “No, no, no, I’m not refer­ring to that. I’m talk­ing about the New York tri­al and now the Democ­rats on our side, there were some that were glee­ful, now he’s a con­vict­ed felon and those things and now for our par­ty, we were talk­ing about crim­i­nal jus­tice and we are now talk­ing about sec­ond chances and now all of a sud­den now you’re, like, well, he’s a con­vict­ed felon and all these things and now clear­ly, again, both of those tri­als, the Hunter Biden one and the tri­al in New York for Trump, that was clear­ly those polit­i­cal­ly moti­vat­ed and those kinds of charges would have nev­er been brought unless one side could real­ize they could weaponize that.”

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