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<\/p>\nPresident Trump repeatedly suggested that it was a mistake for former President Biden not to preemptively pardon himself before leaving office during a Wednesday interview.<\/p>\n
In a sit-down with Fox News host Sean Hannity, Trump also sidestepped questions about whether Biden should face an investigation. However, Trump made it clear on several occasions that Biden should have used his pardon power to protect himself.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThis guy went around giving everybody pardons,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd you know, the funny thing, maybe the sad thing, is he didn\u2019t give himself a pardon. And if you look at it, it all had to do with him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trump added that Biden \u201cgot very bad advice.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cJoe Biden\u00a0<\/span>has very bad advisers. Somebody advised Joe Biden to give pardons to everybody but him,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n In announcing the pardons, Biden hypocritically expressed concern that the individuals could face politically motivated investigations by the Justice Department under Trump.<\/p>\n The current commander-in-chief also appeared to suggest that Biden and other critics should undergo the same legal challenges that he experienced over the past two years following his indictments in New York, Georgia, Florida, and Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n \u201cI went through four years of hell by this scum that we had to deal with. I went through four years of hell,\u201d Trump said of his legal battles. \u201cI spent millions of dollars in legal fees, and I won. But I did it the hard way. It\u2019s really hard to say that they shouldn\u2019t have to go through it also. It is very hard to say it.\u201d<\/p>\n Trump told Hannity that his advisers told him he should consider pardoning himself as he prepared to leave the White House following his first term.<\/p>\n \u201cI was given the option. They said sir, would you like to pardon everybody, including yourself?\u2019 I said, \u2018I\u2019m not going to pardon anybody. We didn\u2019t do anything wrong,\u2019\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n While a self-pardon would have shielded Trump from being targeted by federal prosecutors, it would not have protected him from state and local charges like those he faced in New York and Georgia, legal experts say. But that said, his felony convictions in New York are going to be appealed, he has previously said, while the case in Fulton County, Ga., involving allegations of racketeering involving the 2020 election has all but fallen apart due to District Attorney Fani Willis\u2019 legally and ethically questionable behavior and actions throughout the case.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) revealed earlier this week that House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) promised him that his investigation into the actions of the Nancy Pelosi-picked January 6 Committee could continue and would be formalized into an official subcommittee.<\/p>\nAdvertisementTrump also told Hannity that he would defer to Congress on whether lawmakers should investigate Biden and his decision to pardon family members and Trump critics, including retired Gen. Mark Milley, former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), and members of the House panel that investigated the January 6 Capitol attack.<\/p>\n