Over the weekend white house press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre disclosed that a big name Dem was instrumental in persuading President Joe Biden to grant a pardon to his son Hunter.
During her first live television briefing following the pardon, Jean-Pierre revealed details about how the president reached his choice stating that Biden “fought” with it before the stunning revelation last Sunday.
Asked about this, Jean-Pierre said that Biden’s South Carolina closest ally in the congress Clyburn convinced Biden not to pardon his son.
Clyburn had admitted on earlier this week that he had “coaxed” Biden to pardon Hunter two weeks prior to the interview but noted that the president was “reluctant.”
Clyburn really does own some cachet; she helped Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign come back to life with an endorsement that aided him win the South Carolina primary.
“That was a conversation that the congressman himself had with the president two weeks ago,” Jean-Pierre said. “He said that the president was shy when I urged him to do more of it the president now.” This weekend, [Biden] considered it, and what he had to measure. Fort St. John was not amused when it decided to build the dam not an easy decision to make.”
When asked about the pardon further, Jean-Pierre kept on going back to the conversation between Clyburn and Biden.
Clyburn explained that he offered the advice to Biden because he believed that the justice system was singled out Hunter Biden.
“I would not have this feeling,” Clyburn said if Hunter had gone through a process like everybody else had gone through. ‘But when you get prosecuted because you never filled out the right paper work to get a gun that you never used and was even taken from you, discarded, and then you got prosecuted for it to make it felony. That, to me, is a problem.”
Hunter Biden was facing sentencing for two prior convictions – one for failing to fill out the required form for purchasing firearms and the other for default on taxes.
In previous years when Hunter’s cases was progressing through the justice system Biden would declare; he will not pardon him even if he was to be found guilty. However, the president changed his mind, using the same argument Clyburn used: Hunter had been politically profiled.
“Any person who can open his eyes and look at the facts of Hunter’s cases can reach only but one conclusion that Hunter was singled out merely because he is my son and that is patent injustice,” Biden said in a statement.
He also pointed out that, “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.”
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