Biden Says American Public Not Interested in House GOP Hunter Probes

President Biden tried Wednesday to downplay House Republican investigations of his embattled son Hunter and the rest of the first family — claiming that voters just won’t be interested.

Interview with “PBS NewsHour” correspondent Judy WoodruffBiden was asked how he would deal with the issue. House Oversight Committee’s investigation into his son’s shady business interests in China and Ukraine.

“The public is not going to pay attention to that,” Biden, 80, insisted.

“They want these guys to do something. If the only thing they can do is make up things about my family, it’s not going to go very far.”

House Republicans have always promised to harness the power of the new majority. probe the president’s family — including whether Hunter and first brother James Biden used the family name to gain influence and wealth, and whether the president himself was compromised by their dealings.

Wednesday, March 31, 2009 – Lawmakers A trio of ex-Twitter executives were interviewed who were involved in the platform’s censorship of The Post’s bombshell October 2020 stories on Hunter’s infamous laptop, which exposed emails tied to the first son’s business dealings.

The committee has also already requested financial information from the Treasury Department about financial transactions by Biden family members that were flagged as suspicious activity as the panel laid the groundwork for future public hearings.

Biden has long defended his son Hunter when it comes to claims of corruption, telling CNN’s Jake Tapper in October last year that he has “great confidence in my son.”

“I love him and he’s on the straight and narrow and he has been for a couple years now. And I’m just so proud of him,” Biden added, referring to Hunter’s history of substance abuse.

Biden has also repeatedly insisted that he’s “never spoken” His son or brother may not have known about overseas business deals.

Biden also spoke about other topics in his post-State of the Union interview on PBS.https://nypost.com/2023/02/08/biden-calls-classified-docs-stray-papers-blames-aides-who-packed-up-white-house-office/”>dismissed The classified documents Located at his Delaware home, he was able to discover that he is simply “stray papers” He was left there by his careless aides, who moved him out of his home a decade ago.

“The best of my knowledge, the kinds of things they picked up are things that are from 1974 and stray papers — there may be something else, I don’t know,” Biden spoke to the outlet.

He also tried to contrast his mishandling of material to former President Donald Trump’s document scandal when asked about a comment he made after the FBI raided his predecessor’s Florida estate last year.

Biden said at the time that possessing classified papers was prohibited. “totally irresponsible.”

He claimed that Trump is not like him “no one has had to threaten to do anything” and that he didn’t have his vice presidential and Senate documents “laid out” On the floor, “top secret code word and all the rest” — a reference to the infamous FBI photo of Trump’s classified papers.

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