Posted on 06/23/2023 2:44:21 PM PDT by Libloather
The White House did its best to fend off questions about how much Joe Biden knew about his son's business affairs on Friday, amid fresh evidence that the two may have been in cahoots.
Once again officials insisted that they stuck by their line that Biden was not involved in Hunter Biden's dealings.
But as reporters repeatedly asked about a newly revealed WhatsApp message, in which Hunter said he was with his father as he pursued a Chinese contact to make good on a deal, officials stonewalled.
First came National Security Council spokesman John Kirby.
'I am not going to address this issue from this podium. I'm just not going to do it,' he said, before concluding his portion of the briefing.
'All right. Thanks guys. Have a great weekend.'
Next in the firing line was Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre who said White House counsel had already dealt with the matter.
'Nothing has changed and I will leave it there,' she said. 'Anything else I will refer you to the White House counsel.'
Yet plenty has changed in the view of journalists lobbing questions in the briefing room.
This week details emerged from an I.R.S. whistleblower of a WhatsApp message apparently sent by Hunter to his Chinese associate Henry Zhao in 2017.
'I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled,' he wrote.
'Tell the director that I would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand, and now means tonight.'
A photograph obtained by DailyMail.com shows that he was at his father's home on the day in question, July 30, 2017.
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“Plausible deniability”, except the majority of the American public doesn’t believe the denial.
The White House press conference is a destroyed institution. Why do they even go through with the motions anymore? People actually still dress up and are proud to attend this clown show. It's a waste of bureaucracy-crippled energy resources, a huge carbon footprint for an affair that amounts to an embarrassing waste of time.
Any time spent on Biden is time wasted.
They are moving him out - Stevie Wonder can see that.
Their dream is to let him get crushed, blame those mean, nasty, Rethuglicans, and to bring on Newsom at the last minute without a scratch because our team will have spent all this time chasing Biden - who the Democrats have Mom intention of nominating.
Why do you think Obama is having secret meetings with the House Democratic caucus? To tell them to all get behind good old Joe?
Please.
“ And could this be an indicator, that the powers that be behind the scenes, do not want Joe to run for reelection?”
Man, you are the next Sherlock Holmes.
OLOL this is so funny you made my day
Joe has no idea if he was involved or not.
I dont know how they pay her to stand up there and make a complete fool out of herself but the pay must be
An MSNBC timeslot or a no-show/no-work professor job in her future. Or a huge advance for a book no one will buy.
It’s a sad joke and pathetic
It only fools the cult members, lately
Exactly. KJP is right about one thing, nothing has changed. It’s just that the press is starting to pay attention to it.
When the charges against Bite-me come, these statements make her an accessory to the conspiracy.
Just think...if we had a PATRIOTIC, TRUTHFUL, EFFECIENT, EFFECTIVE, LAW ABIDING INVESTIGATIVE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE AND FBI...NONE OF THIS WOULD HAVE HAPPENED.
Going back to Clinton, exploding with Obummer and perfected with “the big guy.”
The old ‘’little kid trapped in the well’’ routine would do it.
CIA to prighozin: "Hey, we need you to do the revolt thingy."
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