“I think the end game is that he's setting up… framing this sympathy card so that when it comes time, perhaps in his lame duck period, that he will pardon Hunter and Americans will forgive him because they will say, well, Hunter was a drug addict and Joe just loves his family, and he's been through enough tragedy in his life,” she continued. “Leave him alone.”
“My son has done nothing wrong,” Biden said during the sit-down interview with MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle that aired at 10 p.m. Friday.
“I trust him. I have faith in him, and it impacts my presidency by making me feel proud of him,” he continued.
But Devine was quick to argue Biden's response was premeditated, and part of a broader Biden strategy to frame the probe as a “political witch hunt.”
“It's obviously rehearsed, and the plan for Joe Biden is to just remove himself entirely from the influence peddling operation that he was involved in with his son Hunter and his brother Jim, pretend that it has nothing to do with him, and that Hunter is just being persecuted in a political witch hunt,” Devine said.