WASHINGTON – President Biden knew in advance that his son Hunter would appeal to the media on Wednesday morning instead of complying with a congressional subpoena for his testimony, the White House confirmed.
“The president was certainly familiar with what his son was going to say and I think what he saw was from the heart, from his son,” press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said during her regular briefing.
Jean-Pierre declined to say whether the 81-year-old president, who was a senator for 36 years, approved of his 53-year-old son’s plans to ignore a legally binding demand that he sit down to answer questions about his foreign business dealings.
“Look, I have nothing more to add,” Jean-Pierre added in response to subsequent questions. “The president was familiar with what Hunter was going to say today. And he is proud of his son.”
Hunter’s refusal to comply came ahead of an expected vote Wednesday night by the full House of Representatives to authorize an impeachment inquiry into the president for his alleged role in Hunter’s foreign dealings and his first brother James Biden during his eight years of vice presidency.
The first son said in his five-minute speech that “my father was not financially involved in my business,” despite evidence that Joe Biden met with Hunter’s Chinese, Kazakh, Mexican, Russian and Ukrainian associates when he was vice president .
Hunter Biden, son of US President Joe Biden, speaks to reporters outside the US Capitol on December 13, 2023 in Washington, DC. fake images
Republicans argued that formalizing the investigation, which began Sept. 12, would strengthen Congress’s power to compel Hunter and others to testify, including James Biden, who also failed to show up for a scheduled deposition last week.
Jean-Pierre also reaffirmed Wednesday that Biden does not plan to pardon Hunter, who faces federal gun charges in Delaware and tax fraud charges in Los Angeles after abandoning a probation-only plea deal, after demanding judicial guarantees of immunity for other conduct. as possible violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Law, which would implicate his father.
“The president is not going to forgive his son,” said the press secretary
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