DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—President Joe Biden and White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said on several occasions that Biden would not issue a pardon for his son, Hunter, prior to announcing that he had reversed his position on Sunday.
Biden said in a statement released Sunday that he issued the pardon because Hunter had been “singled out” due to being the president’s son, alleging that “political opponents” were seeking to “break” both him and his son. Prior to the statement, Biden and Jean-Pierre repeatedly said no pardon would be granted to Hunter Biden.
“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,” Biden said in the statement. “There has been an effort to break Hunter—who has been five and a half years…
