As the fallout from Joe Biden’s “full and unconditional” pardoning of his son, convicted felon Hunter Biden, continues, the President’s apologists in the mainstream media and on the left continue to gloss over the lies he repeatedly told about how he would respect the rule of law and not do what he ended up doing on Sunday night.
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RedState previously reported, for instance, that the press was leaning heavily on the sympathy card as it related to the Biden family, with one ABC News journalist lovingly declaring that Biden was “protecting his only living son.” Others calculatingly used words like “reversal” and “turnaround” rather than the better choice of words to describe his flip-flop: He lied.
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Over at CNN, however, Republican strategist/commentator Scott Jennings was having none of it.
Fresh off of going nuclear on Democrat political consultant Karen Finney who, incredibly, suggested Joe Biden never lied about the issue of pardoning his son, Jennings rosed to the occasion again Monday night, tying his fellow panelists in knots over the bogus suggestion that Hunter Biden’s prosecution was politically motivated and over an NBC News report that noted Biden and top aides “coordinated the lie” for months about a Hunter Biden pardon:
SCOTT JENNINGS, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: And not only that today, but NBC News reported that the president and his top aides met this summer and decided two things, that they were going to keep this option open, that they were going to publicly maintain that they would not pardon Hunter Biden through statements from Joe Biden and statements from the White House press secretary. They had a meeting, they coordinated the lie, I guess for political purposes, and now that he’s leaving office, he is going back on what he told the American people. This isn’t simply changing your mind. This is just fulfilling what you always intended to do.
No Republican is shocked that he is doing this. What I am shocked at is the duplicity of the president of the United States and his top aides to come together and form this lie and stick to it this entire time. We all knew it was ridiculous and now the American people are seeing what a disgrace he really is.
LEIGH MCGOWAN, SOCIAL MEDIA HOST AND CONTENT CREATOR, POLITICSGIRL: I think it’s incredibly rich to have you say that people got together and they were duplicitous and they created a lie.
JENNINGS: NBC News said it.
MCGOWAN: I’m saying they created a lie because, honestly, what the other side has been saying for years, what you guys ran on for president was multiple lies. I mean, If Eric Holder said it right, I think, he said if Hunter’s name was Joe Smith, this case would probably have never even gone to trial, right, that it was always a political witch hunt, and it was always —
PHILLIP: But wasn’t it — to Scott’s point, I mean, wasn’t it a lie? I mean, you can defend it, but wasn’t it a lie that he was not going to pardon his son?
MCGOWAN: No. I believe the circumstances have changed. I think that we have now have a president coming into office who’s talking about firing squads, who’s talking about running people around the country and making sure that everyone who his enemy is going to be punished.
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Watch below, where Jennings also goes off on the “selective prosecutions” done by the Biden DOJ – and following that is a bonus clip of a classic Jennings facial expression to the comment about firing squads:
When you’re a GOP commentator and you can get a majority of people on a CNN panel including the host of it to essentially agree with you, you know you’re doing something right.
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