{"id":2375546,"date":"2024-12-02T15:13:01","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T20:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cotton-forewarns-biden-over-consequences-on-his-sons-blanket-pardon-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-12-02T15:14:51","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T20:14:51","slug":"cotton-forewarns-biden-over-consequences-on-his-sons-blanket-pardon-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cotton-forewarns-biden-over-consequences-on-his-sons-blanket-pardon-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Cotton forewarns Biden over consequences on his son\u2019s \u2018blanket pardon\u2019 &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcotton-forewarns-biden-over-consequences-on-his-sons-blanket-pardon-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2375546&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) has warned President Joe Biden that he may <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mtg-americans-should-be-paying-for-peace-not-war\/\" title=\"Mtg: Americans should be paying for peace, not war\">face potential consequences<\/a> for the recent pardon granted to his son, hunter Biden. During his remarks,\u200b Cotton \u200bsuggested \u200cthat \u2063Hunter could be summoned to testify before Congress in\u2062 relation\u200d to the pardon. The pardon addresses all criminal charges against\u200d Hunter Biden, highlighting the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arizona-county-elections-director-quits-accusing-officials-of-politicization\/\" title=\"Arizona County Elections Director Resigns, Citing Political Interference\">ongoing scrutiny surrounding<\/a> his legal matters.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Cotton forewarns Biden over consequences on his son&rsquo;s &lsquo;blanket pardon&rsquo;<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1900965\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/tom-cotton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Tom Cotton<\/a> (R-AR) suggested President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Joe Biden<\/a> could come to regret the recent pardon he granted on Sunday, arguing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-taking-regeneron-drug-remdesivir-therapy-for-coronavirus-diagnosis-ex-wh-doctor-explains\/\" title=\"Trump taking Regeneron drug, Remdesivir therapy for coronavirus diagnosis: ex-WH doctor explains\">president&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s son could be required to provide testimony in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/congress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Congress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3246641\/joe-biden-pardons-son-hunter-of-all-criminal-charges\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">president&rsquo;s pardon<\/a> was granted to his son, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/hunter-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Hunter Biden<\/a>, regarding all &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3246709\/hunter-biden-receives-most-sweeping-pardon-since-nixon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">offenses against<\/a> the United States which he has committed or may have committed or taken part in&rdquo; over an 11-year period, marking a reversal from how he said he would not issue such a pardon. When asked what this pardon would mean for any future investigations by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/senate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Senate<\/a> or the incoming Trump administration into the Biden family, Cotton contended people need to &ldquo;wait and see&rdquo; who else the president could pardon, be it other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-michigan-house-member-files-to-impeach-governor-gretchen-whitmer\/\" title=\"BREAKING: Michigan House Member Files to Impeach Governor Gretchen Whitmer\">family members<\/a> of Hunter Biden&rsquo;s &ldquo;corrupt businessmen.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I will say this, though, Joe Biden may come to regret this decision because having given his son a blanket pardon of 11 years, to include time when Joe Biden was vice president, Hunter Biden now can&rsquo;t plead the fifth if he appears before Congress or appears before a grand jury,&rdquo; Cotton said on Fox News&rsquo;s <em>America&rsquo;s Newsroom<\/em>. &ldquo;He has to testify about exactly what he was up to, for instance, when he was traveling to China on Air Force Two and meeting with Chinese communist princelings, or why he was being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to sit on a Ukrainian energy company&rsquo;s board for which he had no qualifications. So, that may be one unintended consequence of the pardon that Joe Biden didn&rsquo;t fully think through.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Cotton also suggested that Biden going back on his word that he would not pardon his son runs counter to how the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">president spent 50 years boasting<\/a> about &ldquo;his word as a Biden,&rdquo; with the pardon now showing how &ldquo;his word as a Biden is trash.&rdquo; He added that the scope of this pardon, which ranges 11 years, back to when Biden was vice president, raises the question of what crimes the president thinks his son was committing during that time.<\/p>\n<p>The Arkansas senator then called for Biden not to pardon his brother, James Biden, who was &ldquo;up to his neck in the Biden family influence peddling operation.&rdquo; However, he expressed doubt that the president would heed his call.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cotton was also asked about his take on President-elect Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3246212\/trump-selects-kash-patel-as-fbi-director\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">nominating Kash Patel<\/a> for director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/fbi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">FBI<\/a>, to which he argued that Patel has &ldquo;many years of experience&rdquo; as a federal prosecutor. He also rebuked how Democrats are concerned over Patel&rsquo;s nomination amid Biden&rsquo;s &ldquo;total perversion of justice&rdquo; by granting his son a massive pardon.<\/p>\n<p>Many Republicans have praised Trump&rsquo;s nomination of Patel, with Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) expressing enthusiasm to work with him on releasing &ldquo;Epstein&rsquo;s flight logs and black book.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1900965\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1900965\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cotton warns Biden may regret son&#8217;s &#8216;blanket pardon&#8217; due to potential testimony in Congress<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2632,"featured_media":2375547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Cotton-Biden-scaled-1024x684.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3620,46007,4877,5536,32076],"class_list":["post-2375546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-biden","tag-blanket-pardon","tag-consequences","tag-cotton","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Cotton-Biden-scaled-1024x684.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2375546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2632"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2375546"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2375546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2375550,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2375546\/revisions\/2375550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2375547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2375546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2375546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2375546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}