Biden’s No-pardon Vow Comes Back to Haunt Him; Spokesman Tries to Explain
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President Joe Biden’s pardon of his son, Hunter, a convicted felon, doesn’t just raise the obvious allegation that he lied when he said he wouldn’t pardon the Boy Wonder. It also has White House spokesman Karine Jean-Pierre backflipping and cartwheeling like an Olympic gymnast to explain it.

Jean-Pierre told reporters that neither she nor Biden lied when they said — in Jean-Pierre’s case repeatedly, as X posts show — that the president wouldn’t pardon Hunter if a jury convicted him on federal tax charges or of lying to obtain a gun.

The press secretary seemed to confess that the president would not have pardoned Hunter if President-elect Donald Trump hadn’t trounced Vice President Kamala Harris on November 5.

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