White Home press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre shut down a reporter’s query Wednesday regarding President Biden’s seventh grandchild, the estranged daughter of his son Hunter Biden who he has to date refused to acknowledge.
In the course of the day by day White Home press briefing, Jean-Pierre was requested particularly a couple of Saturday New York Occasions story centered on 4-year-old Navy Joan Roberts, and whether or not Biden acknowledged her as his granddaughter, although the 2 haven’t but met.
“There was a narrative in The New York Occasions over the weekend about Hunter Biden’s daughter in Arkansas. Does the president acknowledge this little lady as his granddaughter?” the reporter requested.
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White Home Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre speaks throughout the day by day press briefing on the White Home July 5, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Photos)
“I don’t have something to share from right here,” Jean-Pierre merely responded, persevering with the White Home’s custom of refusing to reply questions pertaining to Roberts.
Based on The Occasions’ report, Biden aides have been instructed to say publicly that the president solely has six grandchildren, omitting Roberts.
On quite a few events the place Biden has talked about his grandchildren, he claimed to solely have six, together with at a White Home “take your little one to work day” occasion in April.
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President Joe Biden, first girl Jill Biden, Hunter Biden holding Beau Biden and Naomi Biden watch fireworks on the South Garden of the White Home on July 04, 2023, in Washington, DC. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Photos)
“I’ve six grandchildren, and I’m loopy about them. And I converse to them each single day. Not a joke,” he stated on the occasion.
Final week, Hunter settled his Arkansas little one help case with Roberts’ mom, Lunden Alexis Roberts, ending a years-long paternity dispute. A Thursday court docket submitting confirmed Hunter agreed to provide his daughter a few of his work, and the mom of the kid agreed to withdraw her counterclaim to alter their little one’s final identify to “Biden.”
Hunter Biden, son of US President Joe Biden, arrives at Fort Lesley J. McNair in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, July 4, 2023. (Ting Shen/Bloomberg by way of Getty Photos)
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Fox Information’ Jessica Chasmar contributed to this report.