Tim Pawlenty: Hunter Biden Pardon Removes ‘Criminal Scrutiny’ on Ukraine and China Deals Which Joe Biden May Be Part Of

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PAWLENTY: “Well, you know, this is a slippery slope. And so when you have, for example, Hillary Clinton mischaracterizing the Russia — the research on the dossier as a legal expense when it was really opposition research, those cases normally go to the FEC and you get a civil penalty. When it’s Donald Trump, you get prosecuted criminally for a similar offense and that’s his argument. And look, there’s a lot of issues here but this situation with President Biden and this particular pardon, it is corrosive. It is hypocritical. It is self-serving for all the obvious reasons in your report. But it’s one other thing, too, that I think get lost in the overall story. This pardon goes back 10 years. It goes back to 2014. So if you wanted to pardon him just for the gun charge and just for the related drug charges or even the tax charges, that’s one thing. But when you go all the way back to 2014, you also remove any further criminal scrutiny for the dealings that Hunter and maybe Joe Biden himself had in Ukraine, but more specifically China. And I think that is self-serving. It’s cynical, and it is really corrosive.”