MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski desperately tried to defend President Biden’s decision to pardon his son Hunter — even accusing mainstream liberal media of being “hysterically imbalanced” in giving so much coverage to the commander-in-chief’s shocking about-face.
The lefty “Morning Joe” anchors slammed mainstream media for going into overkill in deriding Biden’s sudden reversal on his promise not to let his son walk free after the president announced a “full and unconditional” pardon for Hunter on Sunday, calling their criticisms “completely out of step with reality.”
“You know, the New York Times, like, the top six stories online today were all about the pardon,” Scarborough said of coverage of the case that has also outraged many Democrats.
“You looked at the Washington Post yesterday, you expected, like, ‘WAR IS OVER’ in massive headlines,” he added in his condemnation of the two liberal broadsheets.
“I don’t remember headlines this large when Donald Trump commuted the sentence of Roger Stone,” he continued, ignoring the historic nature of Biden giving such an all-encompassing pardon to his own son, including protection from potential future charges.
Scarborough claimed that Democrats are frustrated over the news coverage, which “they believe is really out of proportion given everything Donald Trump has done in the past and what he’s doing right now.”
Brzezinski added that “if you even parallel pardons that Trump has done himself, it’s just always so — it seems so hysterically imbalanced!”
“When you read how they’re covering this and then you look at the things that are happening on the other side, it is, again, completely out of step with reality,” she claimed bafflingly.
The troubled younger Biden, 54, was convicted in September on federal gun charges, and on federal tax evasion charges earlier this year. The sweeping pardon additionally clears him of any illegal conduct over the course of the last decade.
His father, 82, claimed he was taking the action after he watched Hunter being “selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted” by the Department of Justice — a complete shift from his repeated public pledge not to pardon his son.
The outgoing commander-in-chief argued Hunter “was singled out only because he is my son — and that is wrong.”
Special counsel David Weiss on Monday dismissed President Biden’s claims that his son was targeted and argued the judge overseeing Hunter’s case shouldn’t dismiss the indictment against the first son despite the president’s pardon.