NewsNation host Chris Cuomo rejected former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly’s Monday proposal that President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) investigate former President Joe Biden’s family after he pardoned several family members. Biden issued preemptive pardons for his brothers Frank and James, James’ wife Sara Biden, his sister Valerie Owens and her husband, John Owens in one of his final acts as president on Monday. After Cuomo suggested on “CUOMO” that Trump’s DOJ investigating Biden’s family members would be destructive to the nation, O’Reilly retorted that it would be necessary to expose whether the Bidens engaged in “graft and corruption.” WATCH: “Every moment that Donald John Trump motivates any retrospective in terms of investigating narratives, looking at narratives is to me a moment wasted for the American people. And I don’t expect Republicans to be better than Democrats were,” Cuomo said. “I think they’re all about their party and shoring up their own power bases and they have no problem investigating the other side, because it’s the easiest way to do that. But I think it’s ruinous to the country and part of my perspective on it is to attack it.” Republican Kentucky Rep. James Comer spearheaded a sprawling investigation into the Biden family’s business dealings, which exposed that Biden’s DOJ prohibited IRS whistleblowers from pursuing evidence that could have implicated the former president. Comer criticized the pardons in a Monday statement, asserting he believes they indicate the Biden family is likely guilty of the corruption allegations against them. “I don’t agree with you. We have a gentleman’s disagreement on this because I don’t think you’re wrong per se. I just think the advancement of the country’s welfare requires an exposition of the truth. So today just before he walked out of the White House, Biden pardoned his family, everybody, but [former first lady] Jill [Biden],” O’Reilly responded. “Okay, if I’m President Trump, I ask the attorney general [Pam] Bondi to appoint a special counsel to investigate the Biden family, even though a full pardon is on the books, because the American people have a right to know really whether there was graft and corruption at the vice presidential level and the presidential level. That’s what I’d do.” When O’Reilly asked if Cuomo would “oppose” his idea, the NewsNation host responded, “Yeah, I’d absolutely oppose it,” calling it “nothing but petty vengeance.” He argued that nothing “entirely unknown” about the Biden family would be revealed by such an investigation, but O’Reilly disagreed. Biden also issued a pardon to his son Hunter in December after a Delaware jury convicted him on federal gun charges and he pled guilty to federal tax charges in California. All of the former president’s pardons of his family members span back to 2014. James was tied to Hunter’s overseas business operations, while Frank leveraged his brother’s January 2021 inauguration to promote his law firm in Florida. All content created by the Daily Caller News Foundation, an independent and nonpartisan newswire service, is available without charge to any legitimate news publisher that can provide a large audience. All republished articles must include our logo, our reporter’s byline and their DCNF affiliation. For any questions about our guidelines or partnering with us, please contact licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org.
