The White House dismissed concerns about President Joe Biden being aware of his son’s foreign business pursuits, alleging that such claims come from “Rudy Giuliani’s lawyer” despite indications on Hunter Biden’s laptop and in his own book that he may have been trading on access to his father.
A New York Post reporter noted on Friday that Joe Biden asserted in September 2019 he had “never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings.” The reporter said that in 2015, then-Vice President Biden “met at Cafe Milano with his son’s Ukrainian, Russian, and Kazakhstani business associates one day before a Burisma executive thanked the first son for the opportunity to meet his father” and “hosted at the Naval Observatory Mexican business associates of Hunter Biden.”