Time and time again Biden’s Press Secretary stood before reporters in the White House briefing room adamantly denying the possibility that Joe Biden would pardon his son’s federal convictions.
Eventually, not only did Biden go back on his word, but he gifted his son with a pardon that apparently includes crimes he has yet to answer for — and possibly some we don’t even know about!
In the first televised White House press briefing since the pardon, Karine Jean-Pierre took the full brunt of reporters’ anger over the hypocrisy, and lies.
Zeke Miller with the Associated Press led out the questioning during round 1 of KJP’s bout with the angry press pool.
AP’s @ZekeJMiller: “[I]n your first briefing here as press secretary, you committed to speaking to the American people and I quote, “in a transparent way —”
KJP: “Yeah.”
Miller: “— in a truthful way, and an honest way.”
KJP: “Yes.”
Miller: “[A]nd then in July, here at this… pic.twitter.com/pxLKlCA1Jb
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) December 6, 2024
KJP’s attempt to simply reiterate the fact that Biden ultimately did exactly what he said he wouldn’t do with the simple justification that he “wrestled with it” wasn’t easily swallowed by the press corps.
Zeke Miller followed up by pressing further.
AP’s @ZekeJMiller: “I’m sure my colleagues have a few thought. Just very specifically —”
KJP: “It’s not only colleagues who watched this, there’s also the American people, so to be, to be fair, in July.
Miller: “— [Inaudible] and they were told by you in July —”
KJP: “Yeah.”… pic.twitter.com/gap1tChDZP
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) December 6, 2024
I’m not sure how many times KJP answered by saying “he wrestled with it”, but it was a lot.
And still, the press was not buying the copout.
The next reporter referenced Zeke Miller’s question, and stated “I just didn’t hear an answer”.
"Zeke asked this question, I just didn't hear an answer. The next time that the president says he will or won't do something, why should the American people believe him?"
KJP is CALLED OUT for failing to explain why she and Biden lied to Americans for months about pardoning… pic.twitter.com/Azl6y4eVec
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) December 6, 2024
As you heard, KJP wouldn’t even admit that Biden owes the American people an apology for lying over and over again that he would absolutely never pardon his son.
Hunter Biden was facing sentencing for a conviction on federal gun charges and a tax conviction, but that was all avoided with his father’s pardon, according to a report in the Washington Examiner.
Hunter Biden was due to be sentenced in his federal gun crime and tax cases before his father pardoned him for them and any other offense “he has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 1, 2014 through December 1, 2024.”
“No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter’s cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my son — and that is wrong,” the elder Biden wrote last weekend. “There has been an effort to break Hunter — who has been five and a half years sober, even in the face of unrelenting attacks and selective prosecution. In trying to break Hunter, they’ve tried to break me — and there’s no reason to believe it will stop here. Enough is enough.”
Ed O’Keefe of CBS News was the next reporter to go for the throat.
His line of questioning had to do with Biden’s constant insistence that his “word as a Biden” should be enough for Americans to trust him.
KJP even attempted to sidestep the question, as she had before. But O’Keefe wasn’t going to let her off the hook so easy.
CBS’s @EdOKeefe: “One of the other things he often says is that voters should trust his, ‘word as a Biden.’ Should they still?”
KJP: “Yes, the President’s — the President’s —”
O’Keefe: “This was a pretty big, defiant public pronouncement by him that he wasn't going to do this.”… pic.twitter.com/w1Y7TdCZDS
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) December 6, 2024
O’Keefe still wasn’t ready to accept the sidestepping and spin when the obvious answer was “Yes — we lied.”
CBS’s @EdOKeefe: “He sidestepped a — a judge and a jury’s decisions on the cases involving his son. He criticized the political nature of the prosecution. The next president has spent the last several years vowing to upend the justice Department and the FBI. Looking at their… pic.twitter.com/V07UFc8l7n
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) December 6, 2024
In her final answer to O’Keefe, KJP relied on the argument that Hunter’s pardon hinged on a plethora of legal experts who allegedly confirmed that “no one would be criminally prosecuted with felony offenses with these facts”, and that the charges against Hunter were purely political.
I should point out that the charges came from Biden’s own Justice Department… but who needs logic when you have a mantra to repeat.
According to Fox News, even Democrats were “swift” to criticize Biden’s pardon of Hunter.
She noted that some legal experts have said “no one would be criminally prosecuted with felony offenses with these facts,” claiming Hunter Biden was politically targeted.
ADVERTISEMENTHunter Biden was convicted on three felony charges related to illegally owning a gun while being a drug user. He also pleaded guilty in a federal tax case.
She was also asked if the president has concerns about his credibility regarding the pardon and about allegations he “misled the public.”
“Virtually no one would be criminally prosecuted with family offenses, with these facts. Whether it’s absent aggravated factors, similar charges are rarely brought,” she said, again pointing to Biden’s statement.
One reporter also noted that Biden has received “swift criticism” from members of his own party who call it a “setback,” worrying that President-elect Trump and Republicans could use the pardon against them in the future.
“He’s going to focus on the American people,” Jean-Pierre responded when asked if he felt the need to respond to Democratic criticism.
Maybe the questioning about the Democrats who also responded with contempt over Biden’s lies concerning his intention to pardon his son jogged her memory.
Because it was at that moment that KJP remembered to inform the press pool that there were “preemptive pardons” in the works for certain Democrats, as well.
🚨 Karine Jean-Pierre suggests Biden is seriously considering "preemptive pardons" for certain Democrats:
"Certainly the president is looking at, you know, reviewing next steps, and there'll be more to come…" pic.twitter.com/j56w0gVOHk
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) December 6, 2024
If that’s not the textbook definition of “tossing a dog a bone”, I don’t know what is.
Only in Biden’s White House can the press secretary endure an entire briefing getting hammered by multiple reporters over a single point — lying to them, and the American people — only to have her end the briefing by announcing that there would be more to come.
I can only imagine the side-by-side split screens in the next few months showing the obvious deception of the Biden White House press secretary versus the Trump White House and it’s transparency.
The democrats still clinging to the lies of the Biden family are in for even more rude awakenings than they’ve endured to date at the hands of President Trump.
And his crazy knack for simply telling the unvarnished truth might just be the biggest democrat gut check of them all.
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