President Joe Biden’s White House is trying to spin First Son Hunter Biden’s allegations despite getting debunked by his plea deal.
On Tuesday, Republican House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer revealed that Hunter received two Chinese payments instead of the White House’s version, where Biden’s Delaware residence was the beneficiary address.
“On July 26, 2019, Hunter Biden received a $10,000 wire from Wang Xin. On August 2, 2019, Hunter Biden received a $250,000 wire from Jonathan Li and Tan Ling,” the press release read. “Both wires originated in Beijing and Joe Biden’s Wilmington, Delaware home is listed as the beneficiary address for both wires.”
White House spokesperson Ian Sams called the new allegations “bananas” on the social media platform X.
“Imagine them arguing that, if someone stayed at their parents’ house during the pandemic, listed it as their permanent address for work, and got a paycheck, the parents somehow also worked for the employer…It’s bananas…Yet this is what extreme House Republicans have sunken to,” Sams wrote.
But the now-defunct plea deal immediately debunks the spokesperson’s rebuttal, as the deal that Hunter struck with federal prosecutors included a statement of facts that the president’s son agreed was true when he entered into the deal.
Included in the statement of facts is Hunter agreeing that he was living on the other side of the country — in California, not Delaware — in 2019.
“After numerous programs and trips to rehab, Biden got sober in May 2019, the same month he married his current wife. He has remained sober since. Biden remained in California and spent much of Summer 2019 painting and developing plans for his memoir, which he began working on through the fall and into the winter,” the document states.
This comes after Hunter was recently indicted for making false statements and unlawfully possessing a firearm.
Last week, Hunter was indicted on federal gun charges out of Special Counsel David Weiss’ investigation, including charges for making a false statement in the purchase of a firearm; making a false statement related to information required to be kept by a federal firearms licensed dealer; and one count of possession of a firearm by a person who is an unlawful user of or addicted to a controlled substance.
