Claire McCaskill: ‘I Hate’ that Biden Pardoned Hunter Because It Gives ‘Ammunition’ to Republicans

Wallace: “So, again, not to follow shiny objects around here as my North Star for the next several years. Charles Kushner was tapped to be the U.S. ambassador to France, and that’s how fellow Republican Chris Christie describes his conduct, as ‘the most loathsome, disgusting crime I prosecuted when I was U.S. attorney.’ Just wow.”

McCaskill: “Yeah, I got to be honest with you. Can I tell you a candid moment in my life?”

Wallace: “Please.”

McCaskill: “When I saw this pardon last night, I kind of wished I wasn’t going to be on TV today. Although, if I was going to be on TV, I’m sure glad I’m on TV with you. Here’s the thing. Do I understand Joe Biden’s pardon? Yes, completely. I get it. It’s completely understandable. But the ‘both sides’ folks out there have just gotten some really powerful ammunition. And for that reason, I hate it. I don’t hate it that he did it. I get it. I understand it. I don’t blame him. You know, he’s a wonderful man and he loves his family desperately, and I admire him for that. He has a sense of family above almost anything else in the world. But he said he wouldn’t do it. Repeatedly, he said he wouldn’t do it. So we’ve — we’ve got Joe Biden, this wonderful man of integrity and character who has done a really good job as president, has lived his life the way I think we would all want our children to live their lives, with honor and respecting the truth. For him to said repeatedly he would not do this and then do it, it allows the side of the mountain of lies and scandal — I mean, the infinite amount of horrible corruption and lack of integrity that just peppers the world of Trump, it somehow allows them to say, well, see, it’s just — he’s just the same, Joe Biden is no different. Yes, Joe Biden is different than Donald Trump. He is not the same. I just wish that Biden would have said all along, I will pardon my son because this is a political persecution. The fact that he said he wouldn’t and that he did now, I hate that. I just hate it.”