The Hunter Biden scandal keeps creeping closer to implicating Joe Biden.
White House officials are in panic mode.
And Karine Jean-Pierre melted down over one simple question about Hunter Biden.
IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley’s testimony revealed the investigation into Hunter Biden for tax evasion uncovered a bombshell 2017 text message from Hunter Biden to an executive at a company linked to the Chinese Communist Party.
In the message, Hunter Biden invoked his father’s name and said Joe Biden was sitting right next to him as part of a shakedown scheme.
“I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled,” the message read. “Tell the director that I would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand, and now means tonight. And, Z, if I get a call or text from anyone involved in this other than you, Zhang, or the chairman, I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction. I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father,” Biden wrote.
CEFC – an energy company that is suspected to be a front for the Communist Chinese intelligence services – wired Hunter Biden $5 million within ten days.
At the ensuing press briefing, corporate media reporters attempted to do a modicum of journalism and asked Jean-Pierre how this text message squared with Joe Biden’s claim from the 2020 election that he never discussed business with his son.
Jean-Pierre expected a docile press corps and tried ducking the question by referring reporters to a statement – which Jean-Pierre never read and no one knew existed – from the White House counsel’s office.
But reporters decided to do journalism that day and peppered Jean-Pierre with follow-ups as they sensed Jean-Pierre’s evasiveness covering up a major story.
As the questioning went on Jean-Pierre grew more enraged and snarled that she would not answer any questions about why Hunter Biden would tell a Chinese Communist Party-linked businessman that Joe Biden was sitting right next to him as Hunter Biden shook the company down for millions of dollars.
Karine Jean-Pierre gets VERY angry as reporters repeatedly press her on yesterday’s explosive IRS whistleblower allegations.
She refuses to answer all of the questions. pic.twitter.com/G5IYx3SUwE
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 23, 2023
White House spokesman Ian Sams later tried to do damage control claiming Joe Biden was never in business with Hunter Biden.
NEW from @IanSams46 , spox for the WH Counsels office, in light of whistleblower allegations:
SAMS: “As we have said many times before, the President was not in business with his son.” pic.twitter.com/24neXk4JZf
— Jacqui Heinrich (@JacquiHeinrich) June 23, 2023
This represented quite the goal post-shifting as Joe Biden’s previous position was that he never discussed business with Hunter Biden.
The cover-up of the Biden family’s corruption and alleged foreign influence peddling is collapsing.
House Republicans finally saw a redacted version of FBI form FD-1023 which recounted a credible confidential human informant tipping the Bureau off that a Burisma executive allegedly paid Joe and Hunter Biden $10 million in bribes.
That bombshell was followed by Shapley’s appearance before Congress where Shapley described a systematic effort by the Justice Department to obstruct the investigation into Hunter Biden out of fear that it would expose Joe Biden to legal and political peril.
The Biden administration is counting on the fact that if they ignore this story their allies in the corporate press will lose interest and move on.
But that could turn out to be a disastrous bet.
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