House Republicans issued a report last week suggesting Joe Biden wasn’t really calling the shots as president. And they argued that his presidential pardons epitomized this dynamic.
Biden appeared so disengaged from the process, the House Oversight Committee’s report claimed, that it called into question “the validity of all pardons reportedly granted” by him.
House Speaker Mike Johnson later said Biden mass-pardoned people without knowing “what the categories were apparently — much less the individual people that he pardoned.”
But President Donald Trump now says he didn’t know much about one of his own most controversial recent pardons — that of Changpeng Zhao, founder of the cryptocurrency exchange Binance.
The president also emphasized that he was relying on things people around him said.
“I don’t know who he is,” Trump said in a “60 Minutes” interview that aired Sunday.
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