Jake Tapper Raises Eyebrows With Suggestion Biden May Have Issued a Secret Pardon in Final Days As POTUS
By Rusty Weiss | 9:31 PM on January 25, 2025
CNN anchor Jake Tapper is raising some eyebrows by speculating that there is a possibility former President Joe Biden may have issued a pardon no one knows about.
Tapper brought up the issue during an interview with New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman on CNN's "The Lead" on Friday. He began by playing a clip from Wednesday, which has some leftists on edge, in which President Trump pointed out to Fox News host Sean Hannity that Biden didn't deliver perhaps the most important pardon - his own.
Haberman stated that Trump isn't alone in his outrage over Biden's slew of last-minute pardons saying that she'd spoken to some "former Biden officials," who were not especially happy the pardons included those that are pre-emptive for some individuals who haven't been charged with anything yet-- and others that have been backdated years to cover potential previous crimes.
"Although it is possible, we don’t know, but it is always possible for a president to pardon somebody and not announce it," Tapper said, hypothesizing.
Haberman replied, "That’s true. That’s true."
"I mean, so it's possible Joe Biden pardoned himself, and we just don’t know about it," Tapper said, while concluding the segment. "Who knows? Joe Biden set a lot of precedents on his way out the door."
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