White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre deflected questions from a reporter Tuesday about whether President Biden lied about his involvement in his family’s business plans.
During a press conference Tuesday afternoon, Fox News’ Peter Doocy asked Jean-Pierre about the House Oversight Committee’s claims, just as Republicans were taking control of the House, and the claims to have evidence that the president lied to the American people about his involvement in his family’s plans.
President Biden waves with his son Hunter Biden after attending mass at Holy Spirit Catholic Church in Johns Island, South Carolina on August 13, 2022.
(NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images)
Members of the House Oversight Committee have alleged that Hunter Biden and Joe Biden engaged in “waste, fraud and abuse” in international business.
HUNTER BIDEN INVESTIGATION: 2022 MARKED THE FOURTH YEAR, AND COUNTING, OF INVESTIGATION
Along with those charges, Republicans said in November they had evidence of conspiracy to defraud the United States, wire fraud, violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act, money laundering, tax evasion and other crimes.
“So, look, I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again. House Republicans promised that fighting inflation during the midterms would be their number one priority,” Jean Pierre said in response to Doocy’s question. “That’s what they said was important to them, and that’s what they wanted to do. But instead, what they are doing is wanting to investigate the president and his family. That’s his approach.”
Hunter Biden’s laptop was at the center of a 2020 censorship campaign by Big Tech.
(Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)
He accused the Republican Party of focusing more on what the American people don’t want to see, like political division.
FEDS WEIGH CHARGES AGAINST HUNTER BIDEN, OUTCOME OF YEAR-OLD CASE COULD BE ‘IMMINENT’: SOURCE
“Look, I’m not going to get into, you know, get into the details of any oversights here,” Jean-Pierre said, directing questions to the White House counsel who would be handling the matter.
At the center of the controversy surrounding Hunter is a laptop computer, which was left at a repair shop in Delaware during the presidential campaign.
The New York Post reported on the many documents on that laptop in October 2020, detailing questionable offshore businesses that are now part of an ongoing federal prosecutor’s investigation into Hunter, who has been under federal investigation since 2018. President Biden He has claimed that he had no knowledge of his son’s dealings.
CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP
The investigation was sparked by reports of suspicious activity regarding questionable foreign transactions from “China and other foreign nations.”
In 2020, it emerged that the FBI subpoenaed the laptop during an existing money laundering investigation.
