U.S. President Donald Trump criticized Joe Biden's decision to grant preemptive pardons to his relatives. He suggested that Biden benefited from this action.
This was reported by RBK-Ukraine, citing Trump in an interview with Fox News.
Trump gave his first hour-long interview since taking office in the Oval Office to the Hennity program on Fox News.
During the conversation, he frequently criticized his predecessor, Joe Biden. Trump stated that the Democrat had poor advisors who provided him with bad advice, including on Ukraine.
He condemned Biden's decision to preemptively pardon members of his family.
"And, you know, the funniest thing - perhaps the saddest - is that he didn't pardon himself. And if you look at it, all of this was related to him," Trump said.
The 47th president of the United States believes that Biden allegedly benefited from these pardons.
"The money went to him," Trump declared in the interview.
Former U.S. President Joe Biden, in the final hours of his presidency on the day of Donald Trump's inauguration, preemptively pardoned several members of his family.
He pardoned brothers James and Francis Biden, sister-in-law Sara Biden, sister Valerie Biden Owens, and brother-in-law John T. Owens. The ex-president stated that he made this decision to avoid "politically motivated investigations" into his family by the Trump administration.
On the day of his inauguration, Trump angrily criticized Biden for the preemptive pardons of his relatives.