Breitbart Editor-in-Chief and podcaster Alex Marlow believes President-elect Trump should pardon suspects caught up in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot, Breitbart reported. Marlow said this on Tuesday after President Joe Biden announced a presidential pardon for his son, Hunter Biden.
Marlow, host of the "Alex Marlow Show," said Trump must help these people who were unfairly prosecuted. "Donald Trump should pardon every single person and commute the sentences of every person who was involved in January 6," Marlow said.
"It was so overblown, and we need to send a signal that you’re not allowed to do that to the American people," he added. With Joe Biden's recent move to go back on his word about his son, Trump now has yet another mandate.
On Sunday night, Joe Biden issued his son Robert Hunter Biden a "Full and Unconditional Pardon" from his crimes beginning in 2014, the New York Post reported. Hunter Biden was convicted of tax and gun crimes but has yet to be sentenced.
This came after the president had repeatedly insisted he would not do so for his 54-year-old son. Following Hunter Biden's conviction in June, Joe Biden insisted that he was committed to making his son serve whatever sentence he would be given.
"I said I abide by the jury decision. I will do that. And I will not pardon him," the president said. When asked if he would commute his son's sentence, Joe Biden again said he would not.
However, Joe Biden's statement this week claimed that his previous promise didn't hold up because his son was "selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted. It is clear that Hunter was treated differently … singled out only because he is my son," Biden wrote.
Astonishingly, the president still insisted he didn't lie in his previous statements despite doing exactly what he promised he would never do. "For my entire career I have followed a simple principle: just tell the American people the truth," Joe Biden claimed.
During the campaign, Trump pledged to consider pardons for certain Jan. 6 prisoners and suspects. Joe Biden's clemency for his son now opens the door for the incoming president.
"Biden is doing exactly the wrong thing by pardoning Hunter. This will now give Trump the license to pardon all of his supporters, including those from Jan 6th," Trump's ex-national security adviser John Bolton said on X, formerly Twitter, according to USA Today.
Trump similarly hinted that the pardon served as his permission slip. "Does the Pardon given by Joe to Hunter include the J-6 Hostages, who have now been imprisoned for years?" Trump wrote on social media.
"Such an abuse and miscarriage of Justice!" Trump added. The left has no avenue to object to such a move after Hunter Biden's unearned pardon and the president's lies about doing so.
Understandably, Joe Biden wants his son to stay out of jail. What's wrong is that the president went back on his word about his intention before the election, a lie he likely told because of the political fallout that would come if he simply told the truth.
