White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre appeared before the press for the first time on Monday after President Biden pardoned his son Hunter – an outcome that both Biden and Jean-Pierre had previously insisted on multiple occasions would not occur.

A reporter asked Jeane-Pierre whether these previous statements denying a pardon could be viewed as “lies” to the American people.

“One thing the president believes in is always being honest with the American people,” Jeane-Pierre said, repeatedly saying that Biden “struggled with (the decision).”

Jeane-Pierre was peppered with questions about the pardon and why Biden decided to move forward with it this weekend. Mostly, she reiterated many points from the president’s Sunday night statement, such as that Hunter was “politically singled out.”

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White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre had repeatedly insisted that President Biden had no plans to pardon his son during her term in the administration. (AP/Evan Vucci, File)

Jean-Pierre also raised the possibility of further pardons, saying that Biden is “thinking this process through very carefully.”

“There is obviously a process,” she told reporters. “And so I’m not going to preempt the president on this, but at the end of this term you can expect more announcements, more pardons and a pardon.”

Jean-Pierre claimed Hunter was targeted “because his last name was Biden, because he was the son of the president.”

President Biden pardoned his son Hunter Biden on Sunday evening. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

“And so the president believed that enough was enough,” she said. “And the president acted, and he also believes that they tried to break his son to break him. We saw that.”

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Jean-Pierre answered questions from reporters aboard Air Force One en route to Luanda, Angola, where Biden made a three-day trip to highlight a U.S.-backed rail project in Zambia, Congo and Angola that he has pushed as a new approach to counter China’s influence and dominance in Africa’s important minerals.

Jean-Pierre had denied six times since July 2023 that Biden was considering a pardon. The denials came while Hunter was being prosecuted.

Jean-Pierre last reiterated in November, shortly after President-elect Trump won the 2024 presidential election, that her answer had not changed.

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“We were asked this question several times. Our answer is no,” the press spokesman said at the time.

Lindsay Kornick of Fox News Digital and The Associated Press contributed to this report.