The former president said he was willing to talk to the outgping president Joe Biden about a presumptive pardon for wife Hillary Clinton in case President-elect Donald Trump tries to lock her up.
Biden is considering blanket pardons of many political officials that Trump may target even if they haven’t broken the law. A blanket pardon would spare them legal fees if Trump were to try and target them.
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Clinton says that he does not believe any potential charges from the incoming Trump administration brought against Hillary would be valid, arguing that she did not do anything wrong with her handling of emails during her time at the State Department
The Mail Online reports:Bill Clinton, during an appearance on ABC’s The View, called any potential targeting of his wife a ‘fool’s errand.’
‘If Kash Patel is determined to make one up, he could do it, but I think if President Biden wanted to talk to me about that, I will talk to him about it,’ the former president said.
However, he then added he may not be the best person to talk about pardons. During his presidency Clinton caused a huge controversy when he pardoned billionaire Marc Rich, who had been a fugitive for decades for fraud related to making illegal oil deals and not paying more than $48 million in taxes.
‘I don’t think I should be giving public advice on the pardon power. I think it’s too — it’s a very personal thing, but it is — I hope [Trump] won’t do that,’ Clinton said.
‘Trump, you know, most of us get out of this world ahead of where we’d get if all we got was simple justice. And so it’s normally a fool’s ear and to spend a lot of time trying to get even,’ Bill Clinton added.
Patel has listed of dozens of people he viewed as ‘deep state’ enemies, including current National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, current FBI Director Cristopher Wray, former FBI Director James Comey, Comey’s former deputy Andy McCabe, ex-FBI agent Peter Strzok and former FBI attorney Lisa Page.
Trump has railed against Hillary Clinton for her use of a private email server as secretary of state.
She was investigated for her use of the server but said she never used it to send classified information.
Clinton ultimately wasn’t charged in the case. Trump claims that was because the Justice Department was protecting her.
Then-FBI director James Comey, in October 2016, which was one month before that year’s presidential election, announced he was reopening the investigation. He didn’t find anything new but Clinton allies blamed his announcement on her loss to Trump.
Bill Clinton, while on The View, argued that his wife ‘followed the rules exactly as they were written,’ regarding her use of a private server as secretary of state.
He noted that official investigations never found her guilty of what she was accused of by Republicans.
