On Sunday night, President Joe Biden announced a pardon for his son, Hunter Biden, after the White House had previously claimed on numerous occasions that the president would do no such thing. The fallout, as Townhall has been covering, has been swift and severe. Perhaps the best reaction, however, came from CNN’s Scott Jennings. It was certainly one of the most fierce reactions we’ve seen from him.
When it comes to reactions from the left, we’ve seen downright denials about Biden’s lies, claims that the president is just trying to be a good dad, and whataboutism when it comes to President-elect Donald Trump.
Jennings wasn’t having any of it, though.
After Hillary Clinton’s 2016 advisor Karen Finney had said “well, tough” about how even some of Biden’s fellow Democrats were less than pleased with the pardon, and then tried to make it about Trump, Jennings from the start shared how he really felt.
“Joe Biden is leaving office making the strongest possible case for Donald Trump that anybody could possibly make it, and that’s that our government and our justice system is of, by, and for the elites and nobody else,” Jennings offered. “He ran to banish Trumpism from our political system in this country and he has left it politically and now institutionally the strongest possible political force in this country. It is a complete and utter failure by the head of the Democratic Party and the President of the United States,” he continued.
As for those, like Finney, who want to make it about Trump, Jennings made further clear he is sick of such nonsense. “Never again do I want to hear ‘Oh, Donald Trump’s a liar. You can’t believe anything he says. Donald Trump will abuse his power. Donald Trump will only use the system to benefit himself and his family,’ and so on and so forth. Never again,” he stressed.