The View host’s embarrassing attempt to defend Biden pardoning Hunter

The View co-host Ana Navarro-Cárdenas made an embarrassing gaffe while trying to defend President Joe Biden’s pardon of his son, Hunter Biden.

Navarro-Cárdenas, 52, went to X Monday to list other presidents who have used their power to pardon those closest to them, after Biden made a shocking reversal over the weekend by freeing his son — despite previously saying he would wouldn’t do.

She talked about how Bill Clinton pardoned his brother Roger, and Donald Trump did the same to his daughter’s father-in-law, Charles Kushner, whom he recently nominated as ambassador to France.

“But tell me again how Joe Biden is ‘setting a precedent?’” she wrote.

But the host made a gaffe when she opened her post with the statement: “Woodrow Wilson has pardoned his brother-in-law, Hunter deButts.”

Wilson does not appear to be related to anyone named Hunter deButts, as online sleuth Zach Parkinson discovered when he did a deep dive on X.

“45,000 likes on this post, but no one seems to have noticed that the first example is fake,” he wrote Tuesday morning.

A Community Note has since been added to her post, stating: ‘There is no evidence that Woodrow Wilson had a brother-in-law named ‘Hunter DeButts.’

“While at least one person by that name lived during Wilson’s presidency, there is no indication of a relationship, or that they were pardoned – the only result is this tweet.”

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When his administration was asked numerous times before whether Biden would pardon his troublesome son, they had repeatedly said he would not.

However, Biden made the shock announcement on Sunday evening that he would grant a presidential pardon to Hunter, calling his prosecution “selective” and “unfair.”

The surprise U-turn decision sees Hunter pardoned for any crimes he may have committed “from January 1, 2014 through December 1, 2024.”

Biden himself recently said in June that, unlike Trump, who has said outright that he wants to pardon the January 6 rioters.

“From the day I took office, I said I would not interfere with the Department of Justice’s decision-making, and I have kept my word even as I watched my son be selectively and unjustly prosecuted,” Biden said in a statement. declaration.

The president claimed that people “are almost never brought to trial on a felony charge solely because of the way they filled out a gun form…It is clear that Hunter was treated differently.”

Biden railed against “several of my political opponents in Congress,” who he claimed were turning the accusations into a public spectacle “to attack me and oppose my election.”

He added that the plea deal that Hunter, who has since vowed to “make amends” for his crimes, reached with the Justice Department was a “fair, reasonable resolution of Hunter’s cases.” But that deal fell through at the last minute due to political pressure.

“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 continued.

Biden said there was an attempt to “break” Hunter and destroy what he said was five and a half years of sobriety.

“By breaking Hunter, they tried to break me too, and there’s no reason to think it will stop here. Enough is enough.’

The president did not shy away from pointing out that his son’s love guided his decision-making, but emphasized that he was “fair.”

“Here’s the truth: I believe in the justice system, but as I’ve struggled with this, I also believe that raw politics has infected this process and led to a miscarriage of justice — and when I made this decision this weekend, there was no feel like postponing it further.’

Hunter was last seen vacationing with his father and the rest of the Bidens on Nantucket, Rhode Island.