The suggestion comes 3 years after the West Virginia Senator broke explicit promises in order to kill Biden’s «Build Back Better» bill
Joe Manchin, the outgoing Democratic Senator from West Virginia best known for frequently breaking with his party in order to stymie passage of popular legislation, has some final advice for Joe Biden following the pardon of his son, Hunter Biden: Why not also pardon someone who attempted a coup?
Manchin told CNN’s Manu Raju on Monday that while he sympathizes with the pardoning, he thinks Biden could have made it “more balanced” if he also pardoned Donald Trump.
“As a father, I don’t know a father that wouldn’t have done the same thing. What I would have done differently,” Manchin said, “my recommendations to the counsel would have been, ‘why don’t you go ahead and pardon Donald Trump for all his charges and make it, you know, it’d have gone down a lot more balanced, if you will.
