BREAKING: Joe Biden Reportedly Seriously Considered…

A stunning new revelation has emerged from inside the Biden White House, and it is the kind of story the mainstream press would rather bury than headline. According to Utah Governor Spencer Cox, Joe Biden privately entertained the idea of pardoning Donald Trump back in August 2023, at the very moment Democrats and their allies in the legal system were working overtime to prosecute the former president on multiple fronts.

The account comes from Cox’s forthcoming book, “Off Ramp: How to Be a Peacemaker in an Age of Contempt,” set for release on September 8. Excerpts obtained by The Atlantic detail a conversation that took place inside a presidential limousine as it wound through the streets of Salt Lake City. Cox, a Republican who never voted for Trump in either 2016 or 2020, says he looked Biden in the eye and told him something that must have felt radioactive at the time: that the president should consider pardoning his chief political rival.

What Biden reportedly said back should give pause to anyone who has spent the last several years being told by the corporate press that Trump’s prosecutions were untouchable matters of blind justice, immune from politics. Biden did not dismiss the idea. He did not lecture Cox about the rule of law. Instead, according to Cox, Biden admitted he had already been mulling the same thought, and that he and Jill Biden had discussed it at length just days earlier while lying in bed.

That detail alone deserves scrutiny. If the sitting president of the United States and the first lady were having pillow talk about whether to pardon the man Biden and his party spent years branding an existential threat to democracy, it raises an obvious question. Was the prosecution of Donald Trump ever really about principle, or was it about politics all along?

Cox’s anecdote lands at a moment when many Americans have grown skeptical of the wall-to-wall legal assault Trump faced beginning in 2023, from the classified documents case to the various state and federal indictments that piled up as he sought a return to the White House. Conservatives have long argued that the timing and coordination of these cases smacked of a political operation dressed up in prosecutorial robes. Biden’s own reported private doubts lend new weight to that argument.

Of course, the pardon never happened. Trump was never handed a get-out-of-jail-free card from the Biden administration, and the cases dragged on for months, consuming resources, headlines, and no small amount of the former president’s time and money as he simultaneously ran for reelection. It was only after Trump defeated Kamala Harris at the ballot box in November 2024 that the remaining charges quietly evaporated.

Cox, for his part, frames his outreach to Biden as part of a broader personal crusade against political polarization. He chaired the National Governors Association’s Disagree Better initiative in 2023, an effort aimed at toning down inflammatory rhetoric in American politics. He has continued that work since, including joint appearances with Democrat governors like Pennsylvania’s Josh Shapiro, where the two urged political leaders across the spectrum to dial back the temperature.

It is worth noting that Cox has never been a MAGA loyalist. He is, by his own admission, a Republican who kept his distance from Trump throughout two presidential campaigns. That makes his account of Biden’s private deliberations all the more credible. This is not a Trump ally spinning a flattering tale. This is a moderate Republican governor with a track record of criticizing both parties, recounting a conversation that undercuts years of Democrat messaging about the sanctity of the Trump prosecutions.

Neither Biden’s office nor representatives for the former president have offered any comment on the record disputing Cox’s account. The silence itself speaks volumes. When a story this explosive breaks, and the person at the center of it declines to deny it, Americans are entitled to draw their own conclusions.

Recall that Biden did eventually use his pardon power in dramatic fashion before leaving office, issuing roughly eighty pardons and commutations in his final weeks, including the sweeping and controversial pardon of his own son, Hunter Biden, in December 2024. Biden defended that decision by claiming his son had been unfairly targeted because of his last name, even though Biden had previously promised voters he would not interfere in his son’s legal proceedings.

The irony should not be lost on anyone paying attention. Biden was reportedly willing to consider clemency for his political opponent, yet ultimately reserved his actual pardon power for his own family member.

Meanwhile, Trump, the man Democrats spent years insisting had to face the full weight of the justice system, never received the same consideration once the political winds shifted and Biden decided against a formal pardon.

This is not the first time Biden has publicly acknowledged wrestling with the pardon question in the context of Trump’s threats of political retribution.

In earlier remarks to reporters at the White House, Biden indicated he was still weighing so-called preemptive pardons for individuals he believed Trump might target once back in office. He called the idea of punishing political opponents outrageous, even as his own administration had spent years pursuing Trump through the courts.

Biden also used that same news conference to insist he still believed he could have defeated Trump in 2024, despite having been pushed out of the race by his own party after a disastrous debate performance exposed concerns about his fitness for a second term. He claimed his decision to step aside was about party unity, not personal limitation, a claim that strains credulity given what Americans witnessed on that debate stage.

Taken together, these episodes paint a picture of a president who was far less certain and far less committed to the narrative Democrats pushed publicly than his party’s rhetoric ever let on. While cable news anchors and Democrat officials spent years insisting that Trump’s prosecutions were simply about accountability and the rule of law, the man at the top of that effort was privately entertaining the very outcome his own Justice Department was supposedly working to prevent.

Republicans have long suspected that the legal campaign against Trump was driven by political calculation rather than even-handed justice. Cox’s account gives that suspicion new life, straight from a conversation inside Biden’s own limousine.

If the president himself saw enough ambiguity in the situation to consider a pardon, it becomes much harder to defend the idea that the prosecutions were an untouchable, apolitical pursuit of truth.

It also raises fresh questions about who around Biden was pushing him toward prosecution in the first place. If the president was privately open to a pardon as early as August 2023, who convinced him to abandon that path? Was it political advisers worried about backlash from the Democrat base? Was it allies in the legal establishment invested in seeing the cases through? Americans deserve answers, not vague statements from a White House that has moved on to new occupants.

Cox’s book arrives at a moment when Trump himself sits back in the Oval Office, having weathered every legal challenge thrown his way and emerged victorious at the ballot box regardless.

The vindication is hard to ignore. Voters ultimately rejected the lawfare strategy Democrats bet their political future on, delivering Trump a second term despite, or perhaps because of, the relentless legal assault he endured.