Whoopi Goldberg rips pardon ‘pearl clutching’: It’s ‘president’s prerogative’

“You know, it is a president’s prerogative. People can say, ‘Why are you doing that?’ That’s what presidents do every time,” Goldberg argued Monday. “They do it every time. They pardon somebody. So, I’m not sure why the pearl-clutching is happening now.”

Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin, a former Trump White House communications staffer, pushed back at the pardon and decried the move by the president as feeding into the notion that “there’s simply a different set of rules for those in power.”

“This is why people don’t trust Washington,” she said.

“I can’t believe this is what’s freaking people out,” Goldberg said.

“Joe Biden could not leave Hunter, his only son, at the mercy of these people who are saying they’re going to take retribution,” co-host Ana Navarro chimed in.

Navarro admitted that she talked to the president when he was on the show and told him she “hoped he pardoned Hunter.”

Co-host Sunny Host defended the president’s pardon and said it was the prosecution against Hunter Biden that was targeted.

“Please, with the hypocritical pearl-clutching of this country,” Hostin said as she went on to cite a social media post by former Attorney General Eric Holder.

“No U.S. attorney would have charged this case given the underlying facts. After a 5 year investigation, the facts as discovered only made that clear,” Holder wrote on X.

“Less than — get this — 0.09% of people are prosecuted — indicted, prosecuted, charged, and found guilty of lying on a gun form. The only reason that Hunter Biden was gone after and charged, indicted, and found guilty was because his name wasn’t Joe Smith,” Hostin said.

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“It was Hunter Biden, and that’s the truth of it. You have got Eric Holder saying it. You’ve got former prosecutors like myself saying it,” she added.

“He’s the president, the sitting president, and he can do whatever he wants to. … What’s good for the goose is good for the gander. We’re moving on,” Goldberg said.