Trump Hints On Fox News That Biden Should Be Targeted — Calls It ‘Sad’ That ‘He Didn’t Give Himself A Pardon’

President Donald Trump hinted that former President Joe Biden should be targeted, noting “he didn’t give himself a pardon” and giving Sean Hannity an ambiguous response about investigating Biden.

Trump’s pardons and commutations for the January 6 defendants, including those who committed violence against police. drew widespread and bipartisan condemnation, although many equated Trump’s move with Biden’s preemptive pardons even as they acknowledged they were in response to threats from Trump.

On Wednesday night’s edition of Fox News Channel’s Hannity, Trump obliquely taunted Biden over the pardons he didn’t give, telling Hannity “he didn’t give himself a pardon and he didn’t give some other people a pardon that needed it.”

In an exchange riddled with falsehoods, Trump appeared to indicate he believes Biden and others should be targeted — but stopped short of explicitly ordering that:

HANNITY: Joe Biden ran and said he would never do preemptive pardons. It was an issue that came up when you were leaving your first time.

TRUMP: Sure. No, he thought — he heard that I was going to do it. I didn’t want to do it. I was given the option. They said, sir, would you like to pardon everybody, including yourself? I said, I’m not going to pardon anybody. We didn’t do anything wrong. And we had people that suffered. They’re incredible patriots. We had people that suffered.

You had Bannon put in jail. You had Peter Navarro put in jail. You had people that suffered. And far worse than that, they’ve lost their fortunes. They’ve lost their — whatever their nest egg, paying it to lawyers. And those people — and people said, you know what — and they don’t even — they wouldn’t have even taken — most of those people, they wouldn’t have even taken a pardon. This guy went around giving everybody pardons.

And you know, the funny thing, maybe the sad thing, is he didn’t give himself a pardon. And if you look at it, it all had to do with him. I mean, the money went to him.

HANNITY: Should Congress investigate that?

TRUMP: Well, I don’t know. It’s — you know, I’ve always —

HANNITY: Will you order the De–

TRUMP: I’ve always been — look, he didn’t give himself a pardon and he didn’t give some other people a pardon that needed it. And I heard Schiff went to him and just begged him for a pardon because Schiff is a crook. Schiff is a crooked guy. He’s a crooked politician. He made up the story about Russia, Russia, Russia. He totally made it up. He’s a storyteller.

And then, after he made it up, they found out that there was a tape of the conversation made by, you know, I guess the State Department, I don’t know. When you make calls, they make tapes sometimes, not all the time, but sometimes.

HANNITY: He was the one talking to the Russians.

TRUMP: So, he, in the meantime, made up the conversation, totally made it up, about quid pro quo. There was no quid pro quo, just the — there was a perfect call. Tim Scott was the first one to come. He read it. He said, this is a perfect call. What are you doing? You’re impeaching a man for a perfect call. It was Schiff. Schiff, Hillary, the whole group.

You know what, they should — Schiff is just a bad, sick. And he went to Biden and he demanded a pardon because he thought he did something. He knew he did something.

HANNITY: Bennie Thompson won the chairman of that committee.

TRUMP: Bennie Thompson destroyed, destroyed — along with that unselect committee destroyed all of the work that took place over two years. You know why? It showed that I was right.

Watch above via Fox News Channel’s Hannity.