Despite repeatedly informing the media that President Joe Biden had no plans to pardon his son, Hunter Biden, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre defended the president’s decision on Monday.
Jean-Pierre told reporters on Air Force One en way to Angola, “He said he came to this decision this weekend, and he said he wrestled with this and, because he believes in the justice system, but he also believes that the raw politics infected the process and led to a miscarriage of justice.”
“Hunter was singled out because he was the president’s son and because his last name was Biden,” she continued. That’s what we observed. The president then decided that enough was enough and took action. He also thinks that they attempted to break his son in order to break him.
The president’s only surviving son, Hunter Biden, entered a guilty plea in a separate tax evasion case in September after being convicted guilty in June on federal weapons charges.
In September, reporters questioned Jean-Pierre about whether Biden’s decision to not pardon his son was influenced by the guilty plea.
It’s not She said, “It’s still no.”
Jean-Pierre once more brushed off a question about whether Biden had intended to pardon his son during a White House news briefing on November 7.
“That question has been posed to us several times. “No, that’s our answer,” she answered.
Since last year, there have been rumors that Biden might pardon his son. Prior to the jury’s June verdict, Biden declared that he would accept the conviction and refrain from using his presidential pardon authority in the event that he was found guilty. The president also informed the media a few days later that he would not commute his son’s sentence in the firearms case.
Biden made those claims earlier in the year before withdrawing from the 2024 presidential contest.
According to a White House statement, the president on Sunday granted Hunter Biden a complete and unconditional pardon for any crimes he may have committed or participated in between January 1, 2014, until December 1, 2024.
“I believe in the justice system, but as I wrestled with this, I also believe raw politics has infected this process and it led to a miscarriage of justice,” Biden said in a statement outlining his decision. “Once I made this decision this weekend, there was no sense in delaying it further,” he said. I’m hoping that Americans will get the reasoning behind a father and a president’s decision.
First lady Jill Biden responded, “Of course I support the pardon of my son,” when asked about the pardon on Monday.
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