In a very entertaining moment during the Friday, December 6 White House Press Briefing, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was turned on by the mainstream media, which pressed her on President Joe Biden’s blanket pardon of his son Hunter, for all federal offenses committed in the past ten years.
It began with Associated Press reporter Zeke Miller, who asked if the liars inside the Biden Administration, KJP included, owe an apology to the American people. He asked, “They were [told] by you in July that this would not happen, and it did. So I’m asking for yourself, not the president’s name but for yourself, do you feel you are owed an apology by the president, do you owe an apology to the American people?”
She snapped, “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, I talked about how difficult it was to make this decision.’ He thought about it this weekend, he did, he thought about it this weekend and he wrestled with it.”
She continued, “So, you know, factors. [There are] some real factors he took into consideration and that’s why I keep saying folks should just take a look, read his statement. And, I know what I said, I know what the president said, that’s where we were at the time, that’s where the president was at the time. I am his spokesperson, this weekend, he thought about it, he wrestled with it and made this decision. That’s what I can tell the American people.”
After that non-answer, the question was immediately picked up by NBC News White House correspondent Kelly O’Donnell, who asked if Biden has concerns bout his credibility now that he has been caught in an obvious lie to the American people. She snapped that changed “circumstances” led to the president changing his mind.
The MSM wasn’t done with KJP. Picking up the matter next was CNN senior White House correspondent MJ Lee, who asked how Americans can take Biden at his word now that he has lied. “Zeke asked this question, I just didn’t hear an answer. The next time that the president says he will or won’t do something, why should the American people believe him?” Lee asked.
KJP was furious. She fired back, snipply speaking while not really answering Lee’s question, “I answered that question, I don’t have anything else to add.” She continued, on that point, “I answered the question, I answered the question. Well, I can’t speak to you understanding the question or not or my answer or not on this.”
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Obviously quite angry, she added, “I have nothing else to say. I am not gonna re-litigate this, I did it on Monday for 30 minutes, I went back and forth, I said please read the president’s really comprehensive statement on this and I even said the last paragraph of that statement, he talks directly to the American people and that’s how I answered that question.”
Watch her here:
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