White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre insisted Thursday that President Biden “is not lying about anything” regarding his interactions with his family’s foreign business associates
Who are you gonna believe, the White House or your lying eyes?
Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre insisted Thursday that President Biden “is not lying about anything” regarding his interactions with his family’s foreign business associates — one day after the House voted to authorize an impeachment inquiry amid a pile of evidence the commander-in-chief has in fact been untruthful.
“Can you explain to people why the president interacted with so many of his relatives’ foreign associates and why he continues to deny any interaction? How should people think about this?” The Post asked Jean Pierre at her regular briefing.
“What we’re seeing from House Republicans is wasted time and it’s certainly a baseless political stunt,” Jean-Pierre replied after all Republicans supported the creation of the inquiry to compel testimony and the release of documents.
“House Republicans are leaving this week to go enjoy a nice holiday, as most Americans should, but what happened to Ukraine? … They haven’t been able to get that done,” she added. “They haven’t been able to help us fix what’s going on at the border, they haven’t been able to get that done. They haven’t been able to start a conversation about how we’re going to avert a shutdown in January.
“There has been zero evidence — zero evidence. You can ask me about engagement and what the president has done with his family in conversation, but there’s no evidence,” she went on.
“There is no evidence the president has done wrongdoing — there’s none. Absolutely none — none! And that is just a fact. You’ve heard that from Republicans themselves. So they are wasting their time. Instead of doing the work on behalf of the American people, they go after the president’s family. But that is a waste of time.”
“Is there an easy way to counter the central message, though,” The Post followed up, “that the president interacted with associates and has been lying about it since?”
“The president is not lying about anything when it — as it relates to what House Republicans are trying to do,” Jean-Pierre responded. “It is baseless, it is a political stunt and it has not proven that the president has done anything wrong — anything wrong. And so they are wasting their time. They are wasting the American people’s time.”
The White House stuck to Biden’s longstanding denial of contacts a day after first son Hunter Biden appeared to give a newly massaged framing of the elder Biden’s role, saying Wednesday “my father was not financially involved in my business” — a conspicuous update from the White House’s statement this summer that Biden “was never in business with his son.
