Liberal and traditional media outlets were shocked when President Joe Biden broke his repeated vow not to pardon his son Hunter, yet another example of the media’s poor coverage of the ongoing Biden family drama.
Weeks before the 2020 election, the media dismissed Hunter Biden’s embarrassing laptop as Russian misinformation, igniting a multi-year controversy involving major tech, intelligence agencies, and many of these same media sites. The media, taking the president’s statement that he would not pardon his son as gospel, continued to mishandle the Biden family dispute more than four years later.
Following President Biden’s pardon of his son, which both Biden and White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre have repeatedly stated would not occur, KJP confronted the media for the first time on Monday.
A reporter asked Jeane-Pierre if the American people “could be seen as lies” by those earlier remarks that denied a pardon.
“You have said repeatedly, yourself, since the election, and the president has said for months, no pardon was coming. I just — you know, I wanted to ask you, could those statements not be seen as lies from the American people? Is there really a credibility issue you’re giving now this announcement?” a reporter asked.
“No, no. First of all, one of the things that the president always believes is to be truthful to the American people,” Jean-Pierre began, immediately getting defensive.
“That is something that he always truly believes. And if you see the end of his — I — I assume that you’ve read his statement and you look at the end of that statement, and he actually says that in the first line in the last paragraph, and — and respects the thinking and how the American people will actually see this and his decision-making, and I would encourage everyone to read it full, the president’s statement. I think he lays out his thought process,” Jean-Pierre added.
She continued, “He lays out how he came to this decision. He came to this decision this weekend. So let’s be very clear about that. He says it himself. It’s in his voice. 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 war politics infected the process and led to a — a — a miscarriage of justice.”
