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,

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

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.