President Joe Biden was under “pressure” from “inside the family,” specifically from first lady Jill Biden, to pardon son Hunter Biden, according to CNN reporter Jeff Zeleny.

“We were told that this sort of came to a head this weekend, and this is why President Biden decided now to do this,” Zeleny said on-air Sunday. “I’m told this has been very much a family discussion and something that has not been widely shared or discussed as a policy matter inside the West Wing. But there was a worry of future prosecutions or future potential of what the incoming Trump Justice Department could do.”

“Clearly, there was pressure inside the family,” he said. “We were told, really in recent weeks, that Dr. Jill Biden, first lady Jill Biden, was really supportive of the president doing something like this. The president was not sure.”

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