Charlamagne Tha God Warns ‘Old A**’ Biden Better Not Hand Out ‘Preemptive Pardons’ For Trump Rivals Like Hillary Clinton: ‘Makes You Look Guilty’
Charlamagne Tha God raised alarms about President Joe Biden potentially providing “preemptive pardons” to political rivals of President-elect Donald Trump, saying it’s a move that would only make Trump’s opposition “look guilty.”
On Thursday’s The Breakfast Club, Charlamagne reacted to a Wednesday interview with former President Bill Clinton on The View. Clinton said he would be open to discussing a “preemptive pardon” for his wife Hillary Clinton with Biden, though he maintained she has already been cleared of wrongdoing stemming from the 2016 controversy surrounding her using a private server while in the position of secretary of state. Hillary Clinton received a lot of pushback from critics after it was also revealed she’d deleted thousands of emails from that server.
Charlamagne argued “old ass” Biden should be focusing on pardons for people in prison for non-violent weed convictions rather than politicians who could potentially be on a “Trump “enemies list,” a term used by View co-host Sunny Hostin on Wednesday.
“I don’t think President Biden should do preemptive pardons either. Makes people look guilty if you ask me,” Charlamagne said. “Biden should be pardoning all the nonviolent drug offenders in federal prison. He should be pardoning everybody in federal prison for non-violent weed convictions, okay? He should be pardoning [former Baltimore City State Attorney] Marilyn Mosby. Those are the pardons he should be working on before he gets his old ass up out of here.”
Charlamagne was previously critical of the president handing out a pardon to his son Hunter Biden.
The radio host’s comment follows Biden announcing on Thursday that he’s commuting 1,500 sentences and offering 39 pardons. Many of those benefitting were convicted of non-violent crimes.
Charlamagne questioned a “preemptive pardon,” doubting Trump could target any enemies without sufficient evidence of some sort of crime.
“It could mean Trump knows something that we don’t know, and that’s why he’s going after these people,” he said. “I just don’t understand why you would give somebody a preemptive pardon. Like, it just feels like you saying, ‘Okay, I know this person is guilty of something, and Trump may go after them.'”
View co-host Joy Behar on Wednesday expressed something similar, asking Clinton if a “preemptive pardon” would insinuate guilt of some kind to which the former president answered, “Not necessarily.”
“It just seems strange to do preemptive pardons if you ask me, but what do I know? I try to stay out of white people business,” Charlamagne said.
Watch above via The Breakfast Club.
