A warning? Trump notices Biden didn't pardon himself

By Jen Krausz on
 January 23, 2025

President Donald Trump may have given a cryptic warning to former President Joe Biden during a Fox News interview with Sean Hannity on Wednesday.

Speaking about Biden's last-minute pardons, including to some who were never charged with a crime, Trump said, “This guy went around giving everybody pardons. And you know, the funny thing, maybe the sad thing, is he didn’t give himself a pardon. And if you look at it, it all had to do with him.”

Later in the interview, he said, “Joe Biden has very bad advisers. Somebody advised Joe Biden to give pardons to everybody but him."

He said he would let Congress decide whether to investigate Biden's pardons.

Previously, he said he wanted "retribution" for the way he believed the Biden Justice Department was weaponized against him.

Trump further said that he didn't give blanket pardons to any of his staff before leaving office, and that it was "really hard" not to say that Biden and his cronies should have to face the same "hell" he did.