Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said this week that former President Joe Biden’s last-minute pardons for several members of his family was a “terrible” decision that “put a cloud” over his family.

“This is the difference,” McCarthy said in an interview with NBC’s “Today” show on Monday.

“This president told the American public, while he was campaigning for office, ‘If I’m elected president, I will pardon these people.’ Compare this to Joe Biden, who said he would never pardon his son, who now, on the very last day in the last 30 minutes, pardons his entire family.”

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