“A surprising voice to weigh in on the pardon is Dr Parik Patel, father of FBI director nominee Kash Patel. The elder Patel wrote on X that Biden made the decision to pardon Hunter because he was “so worried about MY SON Kashu becoming director of the FBI that he decided to pardon his son… of all crimes,” the text of the Newsweek article read.

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Maddow also dismissed all the “handwringing and gnashing of teeth” over Biden’s pardon of his son, noting that Trump pardoned a number of friends and family members

FOX Business host Larry Kudlow discusses President-elect Donald Trump's efforts to clean up government corruption on 'Kudlow.' LARRY KUDLOW: Now more than ever, we need Kash Patel to clean out these FBI stables of corruption and that's the subject of the riff.

Democratic Senator Alex Padilla reacts to new reporting surrounding Trump's FBI pick Kash Patel, as well as President Biden's pardoning of his son Hunter Biden.

Donald Trump’s choice to run the FBI, Kash Patel, is already demonstrating how he’d use the country’s top law enforcement agency to crack down on his critics. Jesse Binall, Patel’s attorney, sent a letter Wednesday to former Trump White House staffer Olivia Troye,