Jim Clyburn Reveals He Told Biden’s Staff To Push Pres­i­dent To Par­don Trump

Demo­c­ra­t­ic South Car­oli­na Rep. Jim Clyburn dis­closed on Thurs­day that he has urged Pres­i­dent Joe Biden’s staff to get him to issue a “pre­emp­tive” par­don for Pres­i­dent-elect Don­ald Trump.

Clyburn, who helped save Biden in the 2020 pri­ma­ry with an endorse­ment, is one of sev­er­al promi­nent Democ­rats to sug­gest that the pres­i­dent should par­don Trump fol­low­ing his par­don of his son Hunter on Sun­day. The South Car­oli­na rep­re­sen­ta­tive, on NewsNation’s “The Hill,” said that while he has not yet spo­ken to Biden him­self about the mat­ter, he told the president’s staff that he should weigh issu­ing mul­ti­ple “pre­emp­tive par­dons,” includ­ing for Trump.  (RELATED: Andy McCarthy Says Hunter Biden Was Par­doned On Charges That ‘No Amer­i­can’ Would A Catch A Break On) 

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“I have not urged the pres­i­dent direct­ly, but I did have that dis­cus­sion with the mem­bers of his staff that I thought he ought to do that,” Clyburn said. “I think we need to clear the air in this coun­try … I think that we are try­ing to run a gov­ern­ment on behalf of all the peo­ple of this coun­try, and if we spend all of our time going for­ward pur­su­ing Trump or Trump pur­su­ing [For­mer Wyoming Repub­li­can Rep.] Liz Cheney, [spe­cial coun­sel] Jack Smith, Dr. [Antho­ny] Fau­ci, that is what we need to get off the table.”

Co-hosts of the pop­u­lar left-wing “Pod Save Amer­i­ca” pod­cast also float­ed the idea of Biden par­don­ing fig­ures like Cheney and Fau­ci in the wake of the pres­i­dent par­don­ing his son.

“And so, I’ve asked the president’s peo­ple to con­sid­er pre­emp­tive par­dons for all those peo­ple, get it off the table. Get it off the table, because I know Don­ald Trump and I think the coun­try knows Don­ald Trump,” Clyburn con­tin­ued. “And as soon as he gets to the point where he can get the cred­it for it, he’ll do it. And so I asked the pres­i­dent to move for­ward doing this.”

Clyburn added that Biden’s staff lis­tened to his sug­ges­tion and told him they would pass it along to Biden.

“And so I’m wait­ing to hear what the president’s response might be,” he said.

News­Na­tion host Chris Cuo­mo and ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith on Mon­day also called on Biden to par­don Trump.

“Enough’s enough. You know what? You’re the Democ­rats, you lost the elec­tion. You got your butt whipped,” Smith told Cuo­mo in response to his asser­tion that Biden should par­don Trump. “You couldn’t pre­vent him from going back to the White House. You know, more than a dozen cas­es have been dropped against him. The cas­es that have been ruled against him, he’s going to appeal, and he’ll prob­a­bly get off from hav­ing to deal with all of that. It’s time to move for­ward.”

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