'I think he'll be mad': Ex-Trump aide predicts he's fuming on last-minute Biden move
President Joe Biden issued preemptive pardons to a number of government officials and other individuals whom Donald Trump has threatened to prosecute, and one of his former aides thinks the president-elect might have been granted a favor with the last-minute move.
The outgoing president pardoned 51 individuals, including members of the Jan. 6 committee and police officers who testified before that panel, on Monday morning, hours before leaving office, and former White House aide Alyssa Farah Griffin told CNN that the decision could actually protect Trump from his own worst instincts.
"The pardons didn't surprise me," Griffin said. "But I actually think Joe Biden might have done Trump quite a favor with this. The American people elected Donald Trump to deal with the border, deal with the cost of living, to deal with restoring American leadership abroad, not to be going after Tony Fauci and prosecuting four-star generals. As much as his base may have liked that, most of the country would hate that sideshow, and this kind of allows him to focus on things that he's good at, that he was elected to do, not get distracted with something that would end up being something that kind of feeds to his worst instincts."
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"That said, I think he'll be mad about this," she added. "I think it is going to be an awkward car ride over, and I could see it changing some of the remarks he'll be giving later today. He's going to be speaking twice. I'm almost certain he'll end up addressing this in some form."
CNN commentator Van Jones said the pardons show Biden believes his predecessor meant what he said.
"Donald Trump should be flattered that Biden did these pardons," Jones said. "Joe Biden think that Donald Trump is an honest man, he's going after his enemies, Biden believes Trump. Trump's an honest man, and so he pardoned them."
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