The White House issued a rare comment Wednesday regarding first son Hunter Biden’s business dealings, denying reporting that President Joe Biden and Hunter were “office mates” after the conclusion of the Obama administration.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki first fielded questions about a report indicating that President Joe Biden wrote a 2017 college recommendation letter for the son of Jonathan Li, a Chinese businessman who was in business with the younger Biden.
“I’ve seen the report. I have no confirmation or comments on a report about whether or not the president, when he was a private citizen, wrote a college recommendation letter for an individual,” Psaki responded simply. “He was not the president at the time.”
She received a follow-up question about emails Hunter reportedly sent in 2017 to his office landlord, in which he requested new keys for “new office mates Joe Biden, Jill Biden, and Jim Biden.”
“It’s not accurate,” Psaki responded. “They were not office mates.”
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Fox News originally reported on the “office mates” exchange in December 2020 as part of a tranche of emails that surfaced on a laptop apparently owned by Hunter Biden. Biden’s 2020 campaign dismissed stories regarding the laptop as Russian “disinformation” at the time, but the laptop’s authenticity was later verified by multiple news outlets, including the New York Times.
The White House maintains that Biden had “no knowledge” of Hunter’s business dealings before being elected.
You can watch Wednesday’s briefing in full below.
