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Bill Clinton On Joe Biden’s Hunter Pardon — “I Wish He Hadn’t Said He Wouldn’t Do It”

Bill Clinton on President Joe Biden's pardon of son Hunter, Elon Musk, and the importance of character in politics at the New York Times' DealBook confab.

The sitting president “did have reasons to believe that the nature of the offenses involved were likely to produce far, far worse consequences for his son” than for the average person, Clinton said today in a wide-ranging conversation at the New York Times’ DealBook Conference. The NYT’s Andrew Ross Sorkin touched on the delicate issues of “character” given controversy over Trump’s cabinet appointments and his checkered past as well as Clinton’s previous indiscretions for which he was impeached but not removed from office. Separately, he opined on Elon Musk, who continues to come up at the confab where, last year, he famously directed a “f-ck you” to advertisers who avoided X.

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