CNN’s Brianna Keilar Makes House Democrat Watch Video of Himself Claiming Joe Biden Won’t Pardon Son: ‘What Does That Feel Like?’

CNN’s Brianna Keilar pressed Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) about his past insistence that President Joe Biden would not pardon Hunter Biden.

The president granted a sweeping pardon to his son on Sunday after the younger Biden was convicted in two separate federal cases for lying on a federal firearms form and tax evasion. Joe Biden had previously stated he would not pardon his son.

On Monday’s edition of CNN News Central, Keilar interviewed Goldman and aired a clip of the lawmaker on ABC News’s This Week from last year.

“You went out on a limb by backing up Biden when he said that there would not be a pardon in July of 2023 just after that plea deal fell through. This is what you said,” she noted before playing the clip.

“Do you think a pardon for his son would be a mistake?” Jonathan Karl asked Goldman at the time, shortly after a plea agreement fell apart.

“Yes,” Goldman replied. “And I don’t think there’s any chance that President Biden is going to do that, unlike his predecessor, who pardoned all of his friends and anyone who had any access to him… And I think you see that in this case where he kept on, and Merrick Garland kept on a Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney to investigate the president’s son. If there is not an indication of the independence of the Department of Justice beyond that, I don’t know what we could look for.”

Back in the present, Keilar asked the congressman, “What does that feel like watching yourself back then reassuring people that Biden was not going to issue a pardon for his son?”

Goldman avoided the question.

“Yeah, and I think that if that plea agreement and that plea deal had gone through, there would be no pardon,” Goldman said.

“It had already fallen through,” Keilar said. “You took him at his word. So, what does that feel like, knowing that he’s gone back on it?”

“Well, as I said, I’m disappointed that after the plea fell through and it became clear about why it did, including Republican congressional intervention in this case, which made this case very unique and very different from any other case,” he replied.
I think that we all, perhaps I should have as well, recognized that this is not the normal prosecution. I said many times that if Hunter Biden were not Hunter Biden, he would never be charged with these crimes.”

Goldman concluded by saying that the pardon is understandable, considering that the president fears that his successor may weaponize the Department of Justice against Hunter Biden.

Watch above via CNN.