Jean-Pierre Snaps At Reporter Over Demand She ‘Apologize’ After Hunter Pardon

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre insisted for the entire election campaign that President Joe Biden would not pardon his son Hunter Biden, and she does not appear to want to talk about it.

At the first White House press briefing since the pardon on Friday, the press secretary appeared to be rankled by reporters peppering her with questions about the change.

A reporter from The Associated Press, Zeke Miller, questioned the press secretary about her accountability after saying for months that there would be no pardon.

“[The president] thought about it, and he weighed — it was not an easy decision to come to. And he put out a comprehensive, comprehensive statement. And I would certainly, you know, offer that up to folks out there who are wondering, I would say, please read the president’s president’s response to this and full …,” the press secretary said.

“I’m sure my colleagues and people very specifically,” the reporter said before being cut off.

“It’s not only colleagues who watch this. There’s also the American people. So, to be to be fair,” she said.

“And, exactly. And they ran it by you in July that this would not happen. And it did. Do you, I’m asking for yourself, not the president, yourself. Do you owe an apology to the American people?” the reporter said to the press secretary.

“I just — Zeke! I just laid out the president’s thinking. The president laid it out himself in his own words. He did. He laid out how he wrestled with this decision. He said in his statement, as a president, as a father, he talked about how difficult it was to make this decision. He thought about it this weekend. He did. He thought about that this weekend. He wrestled with it. And there are some, you know, factors, some real ones that he considered,” she said.

House Speaker Mike Johnson is accusing President Biden of “irreparably” harming the American legal system by giving his son a blanket pardon.

“President Biden insisted many times he would never pardon his own son for his serious crimes. But last night he suddHunter Biden pleaded guilty in September to nine counts related to evading $1.4 million in taxes and was convicted in June on three federal gun charges for possessing a firearm while addicted to crack cocaine.

Joe Biden asserted on Sunday that his son was “selectively and unfairly prosecuted” and issued a comprehensive pardon covering any offenses committed between January 1, 2014, and December 1, 2024. He initially pledged that he would not pardon his son.

Some Democrats ripped Biden over the pardon.

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis blasted the lame-duck decision and accused the chief of his party of putting “family ahead of the country.”enly granted a ‘Full and Unconditional Pardon’ for any and all offenses that Hunter committed for more than a decade! Trust in our justice system has been almost irreparably damaged by the Bidens and their use and abuse of it. Real reform cannot begin soon enough!” Johnson said in a statement on Monday.

The New York Post reported that Hunter, 54, is no longer facing sentencing for separate federal gun and tax evasion cases scheduled for later this month.

“While as a father I certainly understand President @JoeBiden’s natural desire to help his son by pardoning him, I am disappointed that he put his family ahead of the country,” Polis wrote on the X platform. “This is a bad precedent that could be abused by later Presidents and will sadly tarnish his reputation.”

Republicans, naturally, also piled on.

“Joe Biden has lied from start to finish about his family’s corrupt influence peddling activities,” House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.), whose investigators have uncovered a wealth of evidence to support his accusation over the past two years, said on X.

“Not only has he falsely claimed that he never met with his son’s foreign business associates and that his son did nothing wrong, but he also lied when he said he would not pardon Hunter Biden,” he continued.