Trump Says He’s Open to Pardoning Hunter Biden Even Though He’s a ‘Bad Boy’: I ‘Wouldn’t Take it Off the Books’

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Former President Donald Trump told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt on Thursday that he’s “open” to pardoning Hunter Biden even though he’s a “bad boy.”

While discussing some of his own legal woes during the interview, Trump was asked by Hewitt if he would offer President Joe Biden’s son a pardon if he gets a second term in office.

“I wouldn’t take it off the books. See, unlike Joe Biden, despite what they’ve done to me, where they’ve gone after me so viciously, despite what, and Hunter’s a bad boy. There’s no question about it. He’s been a bad boy. All you had to do is see the laptop from hell,” Trump said, referencing the infamously abandoned laptop that contained numerous lewd images and videos, some of which was published by the New York Post just before the 2020 presidential election.

Since the laptop, Hunter Biden has dealt with multiple legal issues. Last month he pleaded guilty to three felonies and six misdemeanors related to tax evasion in a Los Angeles court. He’s facing sentencing on Dec. 16. That guilty plea followed the president’s son being found guilty on three gun charges in Delaware. He’ll also face sentencing for those charges in December.

Trump said he believes that Hunter Biden’s legal troubles are not good for the country, and he boasted he “could have easily” gone after Hillary Clinton as president, referencing chants from MAGA crowds to “lock her up.”

“I happen to think it’s very bad for our country. I was, I think you know this, but most people don’t, because most people aren’t of your talent. I could have gone after Hillary,” the former president said. “I could have gotten Hillary Clinton very easily. And when they say lock her up, whenever they said lock her, you know, they’d start, 30,000 people, lock her up, lock her up. What did I do? I always say take it easy, just relax. We’re winning. Take it easy. Take it easy. I could have had her put in jail. And I decided I didn’t want to do that. I thought it would look terrible.”

Trump added, however, that he “didn’t know” at the time that “they would play dirty with me,” referring to his multiple impeachments from the House while he was president and the criminal cases being handled by Special Counsel Jack Smith.

Trump vowed that he would immediately fire Smith, calling him a “scoundrel,” saying he went “too far” with the FBI raid of the former president’s Mar-a-Lago property for classified documents.

“Jack Smith is a scoundrel. He’s a very dishonest man, in my opinion, very dishonest man,” he said. “And he’s a mean man. He’s a mean man, but his problem is, he’s so mean that he always goes too far like the raid of Mar-A-Lago.”

Watch above via The Hugh Hewitt Show.