周三，白宫拒绝排除总统对亨特·拜登减刑的可能性本周早些时候因联邦枪支指控被定罪.
当美国总统乔·拜登(Joe Biden)前往意大利参加七国集团(G7)峰会时，空军一号上的一名记者特别问及，是否会考虑对亨特·拜登的最终判决进行减刑时，白宫新闻秘书卡琳·让·皮埃尔表示，自周二的判决以来，她没有与总统谈过此事。
让-皮埃尔说:“众所周知，判决还没有定下来。”。“除了总统说的以外，我没有什么可说的，”她回答说，谈到他对美国广播公司“今晚世界新闻”节目主持人的评论大卫·穆尔在上周的一次采访中，他排除了赦免的可能性。“他对此非常清楚。”
“他被问及赦免，他被问及审判的具体情况，他回答得非常清楚，非常直率，”让-皮埃尔说。
“你有他的话...除此之外，我没有别的选择，”她补充道。
她反复向记者们提到拜登总统在判决后发表的声明，他说，“我是总统，但我也是一个父亲。吉尔和我爱我们的儿子，我们为他今天的样子感到骄傲。”
“他很清楚，非常清楚。你知道，他爱他的儿子。他和第一夫人爱他们的儿子，支持他们的儿子。我只是什么都没有...除此之外，”让-皮埃尔补充道。
赦免是对犯罪的行政宽恕，而减刑是对判决或惩罚的行政降低。
去年9月，当被问及类似问题时，让-皮埃尔的回答更为直接。
有记者问，如果拜登被定罪，他是否会“赦免或减轻儿子的刑罚”，她回应说，她以前回答过这个问题，“我说得很清楚，我说不。”
White House doesn't rule out potential sentence commutation for Hunter Biden The White House on Wednesday declined to rule out a presidential sentence commutation for Hunter Biden following hisconviction earlier this week on federal gun charges.
When asked specifically by a reporter on Air Force One as President Joe Biden traveled to the G7 summit in Italy -- about whether a commutation of Hunter Biden's eventual sentence was on the table -- White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said she hadn't spoken to the president about the matter since Tuesday's verdict.
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"As we all know, the sentencing hasn't even been scheduled yet," Jean-Pierre said. "I don't have anything beyond what the president said," she answered,referring to his comment to ABC "World News Tonight" anchorDavid Muirin an interview last week when he ruled out a pardon."He's been very clear about this."
"He was asked about a pardon, he was asked about the trial specifically and he answered it very clearly, very forthright," Jean-Pierre said.
"You have his words ... I just don't have anything beyond [that]," she added.
She repeatedly referred reporters to the statement President Biden made right after the verdict in which he said, "I am the President, but I am also a Dad. Jill and I love our son, and we are so proud of the man he is today."
"He's very clear, very clear. You know, he loves his son. And he and the first lady love their son and they support their son. I just don't have anything ... beyond that," Jean-Pierre added.
While a pardon is an executive forgiveness of a crime, a commutation is an executive lowering of a sentence or punishment.
Last September, Jean-Pierre answered more directly when confronted with a similar question.
Asked by a reporter if Biden would "pardon or commute his son" if he were convicted, she responded that she had answered that question before, "and I was very clear, and I said no."
