Jeff Zeleny, Chief National Affairs Correspondent from CNN, appeared to slip up after the news broke that Joe Biden had granted his embattled son, Hunter Biden, a pardon for any criminal acts he partook in from 2014 to 2024.
These criminals acts included trading influence for cash, trafficking prostitutes, and being his father’s bagman.
“We were told that this came to a head this weekend, and this is why President Biden decided now to do this. But as Isaac was just saying, that really is a sense of the conversation that has been going on really inside the family,” Jeff Zeleny said.
“I’m told this has been very much a family discussion and something that has been not widely shared or discussed as a policy matter inside the West Wing.”
“But there was a worry of future prosecutions or future the potential of what the incoming Trump Justice Department could do.”
“So that, of course, is fretted in all of this as well.”
“But for now, this moment, this certainly is a decision that President Biden, I’m guessing, did not come too easily,” he added.
“But as you played that statement before, so much has changed since June when he told David Muir of ABC News that he would not do that,” Zeleny continued.
“Of course, his station in life has changed. Did not complete his campaign.”
“So that is why, leading up to this, that’s why I’m told a decision was reached finally this weekend after spending time together in Nantucket.
