White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters Monday on Air Force One en route to Angola that no “reasonable person” could come to any other conclusion than that Hunter Biden deserves a pardon. said.
President Joe Biden pardoned his son Sunday night for charges dating back to 2014. Jean-Pierre has said for years, as recently as November, that Biden would not pardon his son. Biden himself said the same thing.
Jean-Pierre reversed his stance on Monday, claiming that Hunter Biden would not have been prosecuted if he had not “beared the president's last name” and that he was “politically vulnerable.” .
“The president has agonized over this decision and made the decision this weekend to move forward with pardoning my son,” she said.
Incredulously, journalists asked Jean-Pierre if he was saying that the Justice Department was being politicized. If so, is it the president's fault or the president's appointees? And how many incidents were politicized?
Jean-Pierre declined to answer those questions, but said out of respect for Republicans that President Biden would not demand the resignation of Attorney General Merrick Garland over his alleged identification of his son. .
He added that Biden disagrees with President-elect Donald Trump's view that the justice system is being weaponized.
“He believes in the Department of Justice,” but “politics has influenced this process,” she said.
She pointed to the fact that a plea deal negotiated by Hunter Biden's lawyers fell apart.
The deal was derided by critics as giving unfair credit to Hunter Biden, and a judge questioned an immunity clause that protects him from future prosecution. This unprecedented provision was hidden from the court.
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