AP’s Zeke Miller: “In your first briefing here as press secretary, you committed to speaking to the American people and I quote, “in a transparent way”

KJP: “Yeah.”
Miller: “in a truthful way, and an honest way.”
KJP: “Yes.”
Miller: “then in July, here at this podium —”
KJP: “Yeah.”
Miller: “— you were asked about the President pardoning his son, and you said, ‘it’s a no, it will be a no, it’s a no.’”
KJP: “Yes, and that — that is exactly right.”
Miller: “So of the President’s son and that pardon —”
KJP: “Yeah.”
Miller: “— it became a yes.”
KJP: “Yeah.”
Miller: “I’m wondering if you would like to explain —
KJP: “Yeah.”
Miller: “— to us, the American people, really why the information —”
KJP: “Yeah.”
Miller: “— that you provided turned out to not be true??

KJP: “And — and I — and I — and I answered this question on Monday. We spent about 30 minutes on this — almost 30 minutes — roughly 30 minutes on this particular issue, and I’m just going to reiterate what I said on Air Force One, to your colleagues when I did the gaggle, and look, if you look at his statement, it’s pretty comprehensive statement that he put out on Sunday when he made the decision to pardon his son Hunter Biden. It his own voice it takes you through his thinking, and he did. He wrestled with this. He wrestled with this & again, he said in his statement in his own voice that he made that decision this past weekend, and the fact is — uh — when you think about how the president got to this decision, circumstances have changed. They have — and a couple of things, and I said Monday as well. Republicans said they weren’t going to let up weren’t going to stop. Recently announced Trump appointees for law enforcement have said on the campaign that they were out for retribution, and I think we should believe their words, right? We should believe what they say. Uh — the sentencing was coming up, as you all know. There was a sentencing coming up and the President said this in his statement that Hunter and his family had been through enough. Enough is enough, and he wrestled with these circumstances these change in circumstances ultimately — uh — and the combination of that present changing his mind and issuing certainly led to the present changing his mind and issuing this pardon, and one thing that I do want to point to, which I think is important, is what Congressman James Clyburn said when he was interviewed. He said, I am absolutely okay with it. Uh — I don’t know how many people urge him to do so, but I did. he seemed to be reticent about it. This is what Clyburn said when he spoke to the President two weeks ago — uh — but I emphasize continuing his quote emphasized the fact that we as fathers have obligations to our children, so that was a conversation that the congressman himself had with the President two — two weeks ago, said that the President was reticent when he encouraged the President to do so, and this weekend he thought about it& he weighed, it was not an easy decision to to come to — and he put out a comprehensive — uh — comprehensive statement, and I would certainly — um — you know, offer that up to folks out there who are wondering, I would say, please read the president’s, uh, President’s response to this in full.”

AP’s Zeke Miller: “Why should they have confidence in anything else that you say?”

KJP: “And I think the American people understand and I think they understand how difficult this decision would be, and I would actually add, and I think it’s important to note here as you’re asking me these questions, important questions to ask — um — that there was a poll, a USGov poll that came out that some of you all reported on it, and it said 64 percent of the American people agree with the pardon. 64 percent of the American people, so we get a sense of where the American people are on this, uh, obviously it’s one pole, but it gives you a little bit of insight, 64 percent is nothing to sneeze at but again, the President talked about this, his own words. He said this weekend, he wrestled with this. This weekend, he thought about this, and he made this decision and let’s not forget, we can’t also forget what some of the legal experts and former prosecutors have all agreed on many across the country have virtually said no one would be criminally prosecuted with felony offenses with these facts, and they’ve all agreed we’ve heard from many legal experts on this. You heard me quote former Attorney General Eric Holder multiple times, I think about eight times on Monday. “no U.S. attorney would have charged this case, given the underlying facts. Had his name been Joe Smith, the resolution would have been fundamentally and more fairly a declination, pardon warranted,” and we’ve heard from many legal experts and also former obviously a former U.S. attorney.”

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