Chris Coons, close Biden ally, said senators were asking him why Biden reversed himself and gave Hunter a pardon.
“I think what changed was that President-elect Trump put people in place who made it really clear that they intended to go after, not just anybody, but in their campaign activity, had talked about going after Hunter Biden directly,” Coons told me.
“This was a significant change from President Biden's insistence he would not do it, and as I've been turning it over in my mind today, the thing that changed was who Trump nominated.”