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Conservative CNN contributor Scott Jennings got into it with fellow guest Karen Finney on Monday over President Joe Biden's pardon of his son, Hunter Biden.
On Sunday, President Biden said he was pardoning his son because he believed Hunter “was singled out only because he is my son – and that is wrong.”
This was after the president said he would not pardon Hunter. Repeatedly.
Biden's pardon predictably drew heat from critics and also some allies.
But on Monday morning on CNN's News Central, host John Berman moderated a heated exchange between Finney and Jennings.
Finney defended Biden's pardon, "Well, look, literally, you know, the president recognizes that Republicans have been for years now trying to attack the president himself, go after his family. And when you have someone who literally ran their campaign on retribution, on the idea of I will be your retribution. Getting back at his enemies, I would imagine, obviously having spoken to the president about this, but I would imagine the president took a look at this and said, I want to make sure this is ironclad, that there is nothing that can be done to circumvent what I’m going to do to protect my son and to try to take the target off of his back once and for all."
She continued, "So that’s my reading of it. But again, I think that the hypocrisy here is astounding. I mean, Donald Trump has said and done things, you know, said things and done other things. And again, he’s a convicted felon himself. He has used his power to benefit his friends, his wealthy allies. In this instance, we’re talking about a man who decided to take care of his son after years of unrelenting attacks. I don’t blame him."
Moderator Berman then asked Jennings to chime in, saying, "Scott, did you have the same concerns over a judge? Do you hang on a justice system for the elite, as you put it before, when it was Donald Trump pardoning Steve Bannon, Paul Manafort, Roger Stone, Michael Flynn, Charlie Kushner, same concern then?"
Jennings didn't hold back.
He replied, "Listen, you guys can spend all day long trying to spin this, that this is Donald Trump’s fault, that this is somehow caused by Donald Trump. He’s appointing the wrong people. He did it."
He called BS on Biden.
Jennings said, "This is the worst possible thing a president could possibly do to his party and to the country to sit for a year and say, I will not do this. I will not do this. The rule of law is sacred. We have to respect the justice system. Juries, we have to respect juries. We have to respect the guardrails and the norms of our democracy."
"These people are liars," he insisted. "Inflation is transitory. Afghanistan is a success. The border is secure. Robert Hur is a liar. The videos are cheap fakes. Biden has a cold. He’ll never drop out. He’ll never pardon Hunter."
He excoriated Democrats' constant lying.
"It’s all a lie. It is all a grift," Jennings said. "Every American except the most partisan brain-rotted people are going to be outraged by this today. He is going to leave off, you think 38, 39% job approval is bad? Just you wait. Just you wait. He’s disgraced, disgraced today. Outrageous."
Finney shot back, "You don’t need to, but you don’t need to hurl names and say people like me are brain rotted. Come on! That’s a little beyond the pale even for you, Scott!"
Jennings returned fire, "You don’t have to defend this, he is leaving office. You don’t have to defend it. You don’t have to die on this hill. You can say this is wrong because everybody knows that it is wrong.
Finney admitted, "I am fine with it, Scott, that’s why I’m defending it!"
Scott Jennings is right. Karen Finney knows it. Millions of Americans know it.
And Democrats know it too, which is why they're being so defensive right now.
Joe Biden, his administration, and his party don't give a damn about the rule of law in this country.
Pardoning Hunter Biden is just the latest reminder.
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