The hosts of ABC’s “The View” — with one exception — celebrated President Joe Biden’s surprise decision to issue a blanket pardon to his embattled son Hunter, absolving him of any and all federal crimes that he may have committed over an 11-year period. Co-host Whoopi Goldberg began the conversation during Monday’s broadcast — less than 24 hours after the White House announced that the pardon was coming — and she dismissed criticisms of the move by saying it was simply “a president’s prerogative” and should not matter because “we have a convicted felon as president.” WATCH: Alyssa Farah Griffin says that this proved to Americans "that there's a different set of rules for folks in power."She also hints that she was stopped by ABC from asking Biden on the show if he planned to pardon Hunter, she calls him out for "lying to the public" about it. pic.twitter.com/kS3a0ZYHKR — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) December 2, 2024 Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin — the odd woman out — argued that Biden’s historically unprecedented decision to pardon his own son gave credence to critics who said there was a different justice system for the elites. She also suggested that she had wanted to ask Biden about a potential pardon for Hunter when he was on the show in recent weeks but was pushed away from doing so by the network. CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE Co-host Sunny Hostin suggested that there was no fault in the pardon itself — and that the hypocrites were the people who believed Biden was abusing his power by granting it. She also reverted to Goldberg’s argument, suggesting that because the American people had elected “a convicted felon” like Trump, Biden’s abuse of power no longer mattered. WATCH: Hostin blames Trump for Joe Biden lying about pardoning Hunter: "I think one of the reasons why he didn't admit it earlier because he didn't know the felon-in-chief would become the next president."Whoopi tries to cut off the conversation about Joe being a liar. pic.twitter.com/XBlGgfBx99 — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) December 2, 2024 Hostin also argued that Biden wasn’t really lying about not pardoning Hunter, claiming that he had intended not to until Trump was elected. “I think one of the reasons why he didn’t admit it earlier was because he didn’t know the felon-in-chief would become the next president,” she said. Ana Navarro weighed in next, referring to Hunter as Biden’s “only surviving son” and saying she had been personally lobbying Biden to pardon Hunter for some time. WATCH: Speaking to Hunter, Navarro boasts: "Hunter, your dad has given you a great, great gift, the gift of freedom, and taking this weight off your shoulders.""I hope now Hunter gives his dad a gift, the gift of being a good son, a good father," she adds.Hunter abandoned his daughter pic.twitter.com/uiRgroyOab — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) December 2, 2024 “Hunter, your dad has given you a great, great gift, the gift of freedom, and taking this weight off your shoulders,” Navarro continued. “I hope now Hunter gives his dad a gift, the gift of being a good son, a good father.” Navarro left out the fact that Hunter Biden has a child he hardly acknowledges. Goldberg backtracked to defend Biden again for reneging on his promise not to pardon Hunter, arguing, “I think Biden had no intentions of pardoning Hunter,” until Trump was elected. WATCH: Whoopi RAGES at people upset about Joe pardoning Hunter:"He's the president, the sitting president, and he can do whatever he wants to… I can't believe this is what's freaking people out! …What's good for the goose is good for the gander. We're moving on." pic.twitter.com/JkequKrwLH — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) December 2, 2024 “He’s the president, the sitting president, and he can do whatever he wants to,” Goldberg scolded, adding, “I can’t believe this is what’s freaking people out!”

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DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—President Joe Biden and White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said on several occasions that Biden would not issue a pardon for his son, Hunter, prior to announcing that he had reversed his position on Sunday. Biden said in a statement released Sunday that he issued the pardon because Hunter had been “singled out” due to being the president’s son, alleging that “political opponents” were seeking to “break” both him and his son. Prior to the statement, Biden and Jean-Pierre repeatedly said no pardon would be granted to Hunter Biden. “No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter’s cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my son—and that is wrong,” Biden said in the statement. “There has been an effort to break Hunter—who has been five and a half years sober, even in the face of unrelenting attacks and selective prosecution. In trying to break Hunter, they’ve tried to break me—and there’s no reason to believe it will stop here.” Biden and Jean-Pierre previously denied that Hunter Biden would be pardoned on several occasions, including a one-word response by Jean-Pierre during a July 27, 2023, press briefing. Here's Karine Jean-Pierre saying over an over again that Joe Biden will absolutely not pardon his son Hunter…She claimed he wouldn't on at least 4 separate occasions. It's the supercut you didn't know you needed. pic.twitter.com/3lwBVrzzK3— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) December 2, 2024 “No,” Jean-Pierre said when asked if Biden was open to issuing a pardon after a plea bargain collapsed when United States District Judge Maryellen Noreika questioned the arrangement during a July 26, 2023, hearing. Jean-Pierre repeated the denial on at least three other occasions, according to a supercut posted on X Sunday night. Another video posted on X showed Jean-Pierre denying that Biden would ask President-elect Donald Trump to pardon Hunter Biden in November. WATCH: Just three weeks ago Karine Jean-Pierre was asked if Joe Biden would pardon his son: pic.twitter.com/66Y8JBTRFh— I Meme Therefore I Am ?? (@ImMeme0) December 2, 2024 Biden also said he would not pardon his son on several occasions, including at least two instances in June, including an interview with ABC News anchor David Muir while in France and when answering questions from reporters on June 13. “Yes,” Biden said when Muir asked if he had ruled out pardoning his son. WATCH: “I said I’d abide by the jury decision, and I will do that. And I will not pardon him,” Biden said during a joint press appearance with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy after a jury in Delaware convicted Hunter Biden on three charges in connection with the purchase of a Colt .38-caliber revolver. The president’s son entered a guilty plea on federal tax charges in September. WATCH: President Biden says he will not pardon his son Hunter and will "abide by the jury's decision" after Hunter was convicted this week of federal gun charges."I'm extremely proud of my son, Hunter. He has overcome an addiction. He's one of the brightest, most decent men I know." pic.twitter.com/wtS6U5R7ao— CBS News (@CBSNews) June 13, 2024 White House spokesman Andrew Bates also denied Biden had changed his mind during a Nov. 26 press gaggle. Trump said during an Oct. 24 interview with Hugh Hewitt that he was open to pardoning Hunter Biden. Originally published by the Daily Caller News Foundation The post Here Are Times Biden, KJP Promised President Wouldn’t Pardon Hunter Before Breaking His Word appeared first on The Daily Signal.

If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is now incorporating teaching influencers how to “fact check” into its activities. UNESCO claims that influencers have become “primary sources of news and cultural information” around the world – which prompted it to carry out a survey into how these online personalities verify the “news” they present. Related: World Leaders Sign New Censorship Declaration at UN Event While Secretary-General António Guterres Pushed for Increased Online Censorship Citizens in UN member-countries may or may not be happy that this is how their taxpayer money funding the world organization is being spent these days. But UNESCO is not only conducting surveys; it is also developing a training course for said influencers (which are also interchangeably referred to as content creators in press releases). It’s meant to teach them not only to “report misinformation, disinformation and hate speech” but also to collaborate with legacy media and these outlets’ journalists, in order to “amplify fact-based information.” The survey, “Behind the screens,” was done together with researchers from the US Bowling Green State University. 500 influencers from 45 countries took part, and the key findings, UNESCO said, are that 63 percent of them “lack rigorous and systematic fact-checking protocols” – but also, that 73% said they “want to be trained.” This UN agency also frames the results as showing that respondents are “struggling” with disinformation and hate speech and are “calling for more training.” UNESCO is justifying its effort to teach influencers to “rigorously” check facts by referring to its media and information literacy mandate. The report laments that mainstream media has become “only the third most common source (36.9%) for content creators, after their own experience and their own research and interviews.” It would seem content creators/influencers are driven by common sense, but UNESCO wants them to forge closer ties with journalists (specifically those from legacy, i.e., traditional media – UNESCO appears very eager to stress that multiple times.) Related: United Nations Development Program Urges Governments to Push Digital ID Under the guise of concern, the agency also essentially warns creators/influencers that they should be better aware of regulations and “international standards” that pertain to digital media – in order to avoid “legal uncertainty” that exposes them to “prosecution and conviction in some countries.” And now, UNESCO and US-based Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas have launched a one-month course which is currently involving 9,000 people from 160 countries. The goal is to train them to “address disinformation and hate speech and provide them with a solid grounding in global human rights standards.” The initiative looks like an attempt to get “traditional” journalists to influence the influencers, and try to prop up their outlets, that are experiencing an erosion in trust among their audiences. If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post UNESCO’s New Mission: Train Influencers About Combatting Online “Misinformation” appeared first on Reclaim The Net.