Whoopi Goldberg Defends Hunter Biden Pardon: “Stop Calling Joe Biden A Liar!”

On today’s episode of The View (I’m as surprised as you are that this show hasn’t been canceled yet), the ladies reacted to Joe Biden’s surprise pardon of Hunter Biden.

And they were at odds — with Whoopi Goldberg standing out as the biggest voice in support of the pardon.

Whoopi started the show out, off the bat, in defense of Joe Biden, “That’s what presidents do every time. They do it every time, they pardon somebody, so I’m not sure why the pearl-clutching is happening now.”

A couple others, like Alyssa Farah Griffin, disagreed.

Griffin criticized Biden for pardoning his son after saying, repeatedly, that he wouldn’t

“Why lie about it for so long?” Griffin asked, prompting Whoopi to jump in and tell her to, “Stop calling it a lie!”

Watch her reaction here:

Whoopi asks what the big deal is about the Hunter pardon? She’s at odds with the other pundits on the view who are concerned about the precedence set by Joe Biden.

Trump is delighted by the precedence set by the entire Biden presidency. It’s payback time. pic.twitter.com/9fDGN6g3xp

— Scott Adams (@scottadamsshow) December 2, 2024

BIDEN REVERSES COURSE ON PARDONING SON: After saying he had ruled out a pardon for his son, #TheView co-hosts weigh in on the president granting a full pardon for Hunter Biden who was convicted on tax evasion and federal gun charges. pic.twitter.com/dwhR0ZUQSL

— The View (@TheView) December 2, 2024

The Daily Caller commented:

“The View” co-hosts attempted to justify President Joe Biden’s pardoning of his son, Hunter, by claiming Monday that the president took that action to protect him from President-elect Donald Trump.

Biden formally issued a sweeping pardon for his son relating to his conviction on three felony gun charges, the nine charges he faced in California for allegedly failing to pay $1.4 million in taxes between 2016 and 2019. The lame duck president’s pardon also effectively closes the door on any potential charges relating to his son’s time on a now-defunct Ukrainian gas company’s board and an alleged influence peddling scheme. Co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg and Ana Navarro argued Biden initially did not intend to pardon Hunter, but decided to do so in order to protect his son from Trump’s alleged plan of executing “retribution and vindictiveness” on his political opponents.

“It’s a precedent for all of us to open our eyes because we’ve elected someone who is in a similar situation [Trump], who didn’t have a drug problem, who knew what he was doing, who clearly stood and said ‘I can do this,’ and he did it,” Goldberg said. “So I think, for many, many reasons, this is very different than any other situation that we have ever dealt with because when we’re talking about who gets a pardon and who doesn’t get a pardon, this man, I think, Biden had no intention of pardoning Hunter. And I think the more stuff that went down, I think he said ‘well why am I busting my behind to stay straight and do this when no one else is doing it?’”

It takes one to know one…

Remember this? When Whoopi lied about being denied cupcakes for her political beliefs in order to slander a local bakery?

Whoopi said on The View that a bakery refused her cupcakes order due to her liberal stance. However, Jill Holtermann, who owns Holtermann's Bakery on Staten Island, said that they were unable to meet the order due to a boiler issue.

Goldberg lied and slandered this bakery. pic.twitter.com/HWvnEBtSjh

— 🇺🇸 Inga 🇺🇸 (@Inga_C8) November 15, 2024

Should we stop calling that a lie too, Whoopi?