Ousted Rep. Who Lied About Fire Alarm Lectures CNN Panel On Biden’s Lies

 Outgoing Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) insisted on Monday that President Joe Biden’s oft-repeated promise not to pardon his embattled son Hunter Biden was not “a lie” — despite the fact that on Sunday, Biden issued just such a pardon.

Bowman, who aligns with the far-left “Squad” members like Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), was defeated in his 2024 Democratic primary and is best known for pulling a fire alarm — to stall a vote — and then lying about it.

He joined a CNN panel discussion on Monday evening to talk about Biden’s sweeping pardon — which covered any and all federal crimes, charged or not, that Hunter may have committed over an 11-year period.

Despite an NBC report suggesting that the pardon had always been part of the plan — as had Biden’s outward dishonesty — Bowman’s assessment of the situation was that the pardon had only come about because of a change in “context”: President-elect Donald Trump’s decisive victory over Vice President Kamala Harris.

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“Why are we saying he’s lying when the context has changed?” Bowman asked, referring to the 2024 election results, and others on the panel began talking at once. “This is — this is a new context.”

“President Trump — what do you mean, ‘so what?'” Bowman continued, throwing out Democrat buzzwords as others on the panel argued that Trump had nothing to do with whether or not Biden had lied. “Multiple times indicted, convicted, insurrectionist, wants to destroy the FBI, President Trump — that’s the new context.”

 

Former Rep. Scott Taylor (R-VA) noted that even the prosecutor in Hunter Biden’s case — which was brought by Joe Biden’s own Justice Department — said it was not a political prosecution as Biden had claimed.

According to NBC News’ initial report on the pardon, however, if there was a change in “context” that impacted the president’s decision, it was not Trump’s re-election, but Hunter’s conviction. That, as NBC reported, was also when the administration sanctioned a conscious effort on the parts of Biden and his media surrogates to lie to the people about it.

The president has discussed pardoning his son with some of his closest aides at least since Hunter Biden’s conviction in June, said two people with direct knowledge of the discussions about the matter. They said it was decided at the time that he would publicly say he would not pardon his son even though doing so remained on the table.