White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was bombarded with questions from reporters in the first televised press briefing since President Biden pardoned son Hunter.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was bombarded with questions from reporters in the first televised press briefing since President Biden pardoned son Hunter Biden.
She also spoke to reporters earlier this week from Air Force One.
“The statement that he put out on Sunday when he made this decision to pardon his son, Hunter Biden, it’s in his own voice”, Jean-Pierre said after she was asked about Hunter Biden’s pardon by an Associated Press reporter.
“I think it takes you through his thinking. And he did. He wrestled with this. He wrestled with this, and again, he said in his statement, in his own voice, that he made that decision this past weekend.”
The president and Jean-Pierre said unequivocally when asked over the summer that the president would not pardon his son.
Jean-Pierre insisted “circumstances have changed.”
“Republicans said they weren’t going to let up, weren’t going to stop”, she said. “Recently announced Trump appointees for law enforcement have said on the campaign that they were out for retribution, and I think we should believe their words, right? We should believe what they say.
