The White House on Monday defended President Joe Biden’s decision to pardon his son, Hunter, and argued that the president’s dramatic public reversal on the matter did not undermine his credibility or the independence of the Justice Department.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Monday defended President Joe Biden's decision to pardon his son, Hunter Biden, despite telling the press multiple times that the president had no such plans.

Nearly all pardons target specific allegations or charges, making Hunter Biden’s unusual. The only other precedent was President Gerald Ford’s highly controversial move in which he pardoned “all offenses against the United States” that Nixon “has committed or may have committed” over the course of his presidency.