Joe Biden created his biggest scandal in his final weeks in office.
Biden left allies trying to defend an act of unprecedented corruption.
And Karine Jean-Pierre felt trapped after Joe Biden stuck her in this bad position.
Karine Jean-Pierre struggles to defend the pardon of Hunter Biden
Joe Biden pardoning Hunter Biden took even top members of his administration by surprise.
Biden issued the pardon late at night at the tail end of the Thanksgiving holiday weekend.
The sweeping pardon covered all potential criminal activity over an 11-year period beginning in 2014.
The breadth of this pardon gave credence to the allegations that Hunter Biden was selling access to U.S. foreign policy when his father served as Vice President as the pardon would shut off the possibility of future criminal investigations into Hunter Biden’s foreign business deals.
In his statement announcing the pardon, Joe Biden claimed he took this unprecedented and corrupt step because his son was the victim of political persecution.
That led to the obvious question from reporters to Karine Jean-Pierre about how Joe Biden allowed his own Justice Department to get infected by politics.
“So, Karine, when the — when the president says that — that the justice system is “infected” with politics, how deep is the rot? And how much of the blame does the president take on himself for the fact that his — his own Justice Department, his appointees, have allowed to — have — have allowed it to get this bad?” a reporter asked Jean-Pierre during a gaggle aboard Air Force One.
Jean-Pierre fell back on the sham, unconstitutional plea deal the Biden Justice Department tried to cut with Hunter Biden that a federal judge blew up because it contained the same blanket immunity Joe Biden eventually included in his corrupt pardon.
“And the President says it — I’m going to pull out his statement — to your — to your question. And this — this plays into what I just read with the SDNY deputy chief, which is, look, there was a deal on the table — ‘a carefully negotiated plea deal, agreed to by the Department of Justice, unraveled in the courtroom, with a number’ — this is the President’s voice — ‘with a number of my political opponents in Congress taking credit for bringing political pressure on the process. Had the plea deal held, it would have been a fair, reasonable resolution of Hunter’s cases.’ This is the President saying this,” Jean-Pierre stated.
This wasn’t making the point Jean-Pierre thought.
It confirmed politics infected the Department of Justice.
But the political imperative at hand was to cover up for Hunter Biden because any investigation of his business dealings could implicate Joe Biden.
The reporter tried again.
“He just said it’s ‘infected’ with politics,” the reporter said about Joe Biden’s statement about his own Justice Department.
Jean-Pierre responded with more nonsense about Hunter Biden being the victim of unfair prosecution.
“I — he believes — ‘I said I would not interfere with the Justice Department’s decision-making, and I kept my word even as I have watched my son being selectively and unfair[ly] prosecuted,’” Jean-Pierre replied.
Hunter Biden only stood trial because a federal judge carefully read the plea deal the Biden Justice Department tried to cut with Hunter Biden and deduced there was an unconstitutional cover up afoot.
The judge rejecting the deal forced the Department of Justice to play the case straight, meaning Hunter Biden would go to trial.
The only political considerations involved were those protecting Hunter Biden.
