Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said Monday that there’s a double standard when it comes to former President Joe Biden’s preemptive pardons of his family members and President Donald Trump‘s pardons of Jan. 6 rioters.

McCarthy was asked about the difference between the two swaths of pardons while being interviewed on NBC, according to a report. The former House speaker said the difference was Trump ran on pardoning Jan. 6 rioters, while Biden campaigned saying he would never pardon his son.

“This is the difference,” McCarthy said. “This president told the American public, while he was campaigning for office, ‘If I’m elected president, I will pardon these people.’ Compare this to Joe Biden, who said he would never pardon his son, who now, on the very last day in the last 30 minutes, pardons his entire family.”

McCarthy said the pardons suggest that members of Biden’s family have done “something wrong.”

“Terrible. Terrible,” McCarthy said. “Think about what everybody else had gone through. Why pardon your family? It makes no sense to me. … All it does is put a cloud over that you did something wrong.”

McCarthy also suggested the timing was suspect.

“You must know something that other people do not, and what?” McCarthy said. “Why do you wait until 30 minutes before? Why did you tell the American public you would never pardon your son, and you do it now?”

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Hunter Biden was pardoned on Dec. 2. However, on Monday, just hours before handing the White House over to Trump, Joe Biden pardoned five other members of his family: his brothers, James and Francis Biden, and the former’s wife, Sara Biden, and his sister, Valerie Biden Owens, and her husband, John Owens. Joe Biden did not pardon first lady Jill Biden or any of his children other than Hunter.

“The difference here is whether you agree or disagree about what President Trump’s going to do, he told the American public ahead of time,” McCarthy said. “They put that into consideration whether they vote for him for president, so he’s just keeping a campaign promise.”