White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre stated President Biden was “familiar” with what his son, Hunter Biden, deliberate to say in a dramatic public assertion on Capitol Hill Wednesday defying a congressional subpoena.
“The president was certainly familiar with what his son was going to say,” Ms. Jean-Pierre informed reporters. “And I think what you saw was from the heart from his son and you’ve heard me say this — you’ve heard the president say this — when it comes to the president, the first lady, they are proud of him, continuing to rebuild his life. They are proud of their son.”
Ms. Jean-Pierre stonewalled questions on whether or not the elder Biden supplied recommendation to his son or helped draft his assertion. She additionally refused to say whether or not Mr. Biden supported his resolution to defy the House subpoena.
“I don’t have anything else to add,” Ms. Jean-Pierre responded to a flurry of questions that adopted her remarks.
The feedback come hours after Hunter Biden appeared exterior the Capitol to debate his resolution to disregard a subpoena issued by the Republican-controlled House for a closed-door deposition. Instead, Hunter Biden gave temporary remarks lashing out in regards to the GOP-led effort to tie the president to his enterprise offers, and decried the emotional toll the House investigation has taken on him and his household.
Hunter Biden has lengthy supplied to testify earlier than Congress in an open listening to quite than a closed-door deposition that lawmakers demanded. Republicans have insisted that Democrats would disrupt a public listening to.
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In response to Hunter Biden defying the subpoena, Republicans stated they’d provoke contempt proceedings.
Ms. Jean-Pierre additionally declined to deal with Mr. Biden’s 2021 feedback during which he known as for the Justice Department to prosecute those that refused congressional subpoenas from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol.
“I hope that the committee goes after them and holds them accountable,” he informed reporters on the time.
Pressed on whether or not he thinks these folks must be prosecuted by the Justice Department, Mr. Biden responded, “I do, yes.”
When requested to sq. Mr. Biden’s agency stance on congressional subpoenas along with his son’s refusal to adjust to one, Ms. Jean-Pierre stated she didn’t have something so as to add.
