Bill Clinton may talk to Biden about preemptive pardon for Hillary so Trump can’t lock her up

Bill Clinton said Thursday he was willing to talk to President Joe Biden about a likely pardon for his wife Hillary Clinton in case President-elect Donald Trump tried to jail her.

Trump denounced Clinton in their 2016 campaign and his nominee to lead the FBI, Kash Patel, has said he thinks the former secretary of state may have committed crimes.

“Lock her up,” was a common chant about Clinton among Trump supporters. The president-elect has also vowed revenge against those he calls his political enemies.

Bill Clinton called any possible attack on his wife a “fool’s errand” during an appearance on ABC’s The View.

“If Kash Patel is determined to come up with one, he could, but I think if President Biden wants to talk to me about that, I’ll talk to him about it,” the former president said.

However, he then added that he may not be the best person to talk about pardons. During his presidency, Clinton sparked a huge controversy when he pardoned billionaire Marc Rich, who for decades had been on the run from fraud related to making illegal oil deals and failing to pay more than $48 million in taxes.

“I don’t think I should give public advice on the pardon power. I think it is – it’s a very personal thing, but it is – I hope [Trump] I won’t do that,” Clinton said.

“Trump, you know, most of us leave this world sooner than we would if all we got was simple justice. And so it’s normally a fool’s ear and spending a lot of time trying to get revenge,” Bill Clinton added.

Patel has listed dozens of people he considered “deep state” enemies, including current National Security Advisor 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 Agent Peter Strzok and Former FBI Agent Peter Strzok. FBI attorney Lisa Page.

Trump has shamed 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 was ultimately not charged in the case. Trump claims this was because the Justice Department was protecting her.

Then-FBI Director James Comey announced in October 2016, a month before that year’s presidential election, that he would reopen the investigation. He found nothing new, but Clinton allies blamed his announcement for her loss to Trump.

Bill Clinton argued on The View 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 have never found her guilty of what Republicans accused her of.

“They have a problem with her because she didn’t do anything wrong in the first place. Second, she followed the rules exactly as they were written. Third, Trump’s State Department – Trump’s State Department discovered – remember how the emails were such a big deal in 2016? Trump’s State Department discovered that Hillary sent and received exactly zero classified emails on her personal device. It was a fabricated fake story,” he said.

President Joe Biden sparked controversy when he pardoned his son Hunter (right)

President-elect Donald Trump has nominated FBI Director Kash Patel to meet with senators

Biden is considering blanket pardons for many political officials that Trump could target, even if they haven’t broken the law. A general pardon would save them legal costs if Trump tried to target them.

Trump has vowed revenge against those he believes wronged him, including former Rep. Liz Cheney, a Republican who criticized his actions on Jan. 6; Senator Adam Smith, who led the impeachment proceedings against Trump as a member of the House of Representatives; Dr. Anthony Fauci, who served as a top medical official during the COVID pandemic; and Jack Smith, the special counsel who indicted Trump on multiple federal charges.

The president-elect railed against his political opponents during the election and hasn’t stopped.

On Sunday, he threatened to jail every House of Representatives lawmaker who served on the special committee investigating the January 6 uprising.

“Everyone on that committee… for what they did, yes, quite frankly, they should go to jail,” Trump told NBC’s Meet the Press.

Biden himself made a controversial pardon decision when he pardoned his son Hunter after repeatedly vowing not to do so.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has acknowledged that more pardons are coming but has not provided details.

She also defended Biden’s decision to pardon his son, saying “the circumstances have changed.”

Bill Clinton defended his wife Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server as Secretary of State, noting she was not accused or found guilty of anything

In his statement announcing Hunter’s pardon, President Biden said his son was a target for the list name.

“No reasonable person looking at the facts of Hunter’s cases could come to any conclusion other than that Hunter was singled out solely because he is my son — and that is wrong,” he said.

He pardoned his son shortly before Hunter was convicted on federal convictions related to the purchase of a gun and failure to pay his taxes.