Banks, former assistant Watergate special prosecutor, cheered on President Biden for pardoning his son after promising for years that he would do the opposite. In an interview on MSNBC, Wine-Banks encouraged Biden to issue "pre-emptive pardons" for DOJ officials,

Former Watergate prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks has said she is “relieved and thrilled” that President Joe Biden officially pardoned his son Hunter from federal gun and tax convictions. The president accused his “political opponents in Congress” of pursuing the prosecution against his son—who became the first child of a sitting president to be criminally convicted after he was found guilty on firearms charges in June.

Banks, a former Watergate prosecutor, has ignited a firestorm with her controversial suggestion that President Joe Biden issue preemptive pardons to himself and key figures, including Special Counsel Jack

Hunter Biden’s pardon is quickly becoming something of a third rail in the earliest stages of the 2028 presidential primary, with few ambitious Democrats showing any desire to touch it. Many of the governors and senators who are vying to become the future of the Democratic Party are declining to weigh in on Joe Biden’s last-minute,

Some Democrats fear that Trump will use the pardon to criticize the justice system and bolster his own efforts to remake it.