‘SO SAD’: James Carville brands Joe Biden ‘most tragic figure in American politics’

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Democratic strategist James Carville didn’t hold back when looking at the political misfortunes of outgoing U.S. President Joe Biden.

Carville said that Biden’s decision to remain in the presidential race ravaged his legacy and messed up any chance of another Democrat staying in office and getting someone else to do his dirty work and pardon his son, Hunter.

“The most tragic figure in American politics in my lifetime is President Biden,” Carville declared in a video for Politicon.

“It’s all so f***ing self-inflicted,” the 80-year-old continued. “He knows that he f***ed up.”

Carville, who rose to fame after running former President Bill Clinton’s successful 1992 campaign, argued that Biden’s downfall is a “f—ing shame” because he wasn’t brought down over “bad policies.”

The pundit called Biden “the most tolerant, loving, caring, non-prejudice person you can imagine,” adding, “And this is what he’s faced with.”

Carville was referring to Hunter’s sweeping pardon, for convictions on illegal gun possession and tax fraud for which he was about to be sentenced, as well as for any crimes he may have committed going back to Jan. 1, 2014.

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That said, the strategist suggested that no one should have believed Biden when he and the White House repeated denied that Hunter would be pardoned.

“Alright, so he said, ‘I’d never pardon the kid.’ OK. When anybody says, ‘I never had sex with that person,’ or, ‘I’d never pardon my kid,’ I don’t pay any attention to it because I think everybody lies about sex and everybody is going to do what they’re going to do with their own children,” Carville explained.

“But the different scenario would be if he would have, in September of 2023, or August, said that he wasn’t going to run — God damn, we would have won this election, and it wouldn’t have been that close, because we’d have had so many freaking talented people that were running,” he continued.

Carville believes Biden would have been “the toast of Washington” and “getting ready to leave on a high note” had he dropped out of the race sooner.

And if he had, Carville said that an incoming Democratic president “could have sort of gotten away with commuting any sentence that Hunter Biden got” and that the uproar would have been “minimal.”

But now Biden’s legacy is “tragic, it’s sad,” Carville described.

“It will be six years before somebody comes back and talks about all of the stunning things — the manufacturing that he’s brought back, the stunning stuff he’s done.”

He continued: “What’s so sad, it didn’t have to be this way. He brought it all on himself.”