Due to Republican demands for probes into Joe and Hunter’s business dealings, their Thanksgiving get-together has turned sour.
Despite claims that they engaged in improper financial connections with Chinese officials and a Ukrainian firm, among others, President Joe Biden and his son Hunter went shopping together on the day after Thanksgiving.
On Friday, 80-year-old Joe Biden and his 52-year-old son Hunter spent the day shopping on the island of Nantucket off the coast of Massachusetts. The New York Post reports that the President dined alone at the Brotherhood of Thieves on Broad St.
They were joined by First Lady Jill Biden, the President, and Mrs. Biden, Ashley and Beau, Melissa and her son Josh, and the President and First Lady. After that, there was a Christmas tree lighting ceremony and a visit to Craftmasters of Nantucket.
The casual stroll is unlikely to ease Republican charges that the two worked together in pay-to-play business activities that gave the Biden family access to the White House in exchange for big personal fortunes.
The President Biden have publicly disputed charges that they and the President’s son worked together on financial operations.
Allegations of unlawful foreign lobbying and money laundering against Hunter Biden are under investigation by the FBI.
After the Republican majority in the House gained power in 2019, they decided to use it to investigate the Bidens’ finances.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) pressed on his party to target Hunter and President Biden last week after Cruz referred to Biden as “the Godfather of the Biden commercial empire.”
Nobody cares about the unfortunate prisoner. On an episode of his podcast, “Verdict with Ted Cruz,” Cruz offered this statement about his boss.
He went on to say, “The primary character is an enormously large man.” Joe Biden’s life story is here in its entirety. Cruz said he is the “ultimate beneficiary of this fraudulent system.” In the criminal underworld, he is using his influence to help himself and his family. Therefore, public corruption is so rampant.
When asked who the focus of any Republican investigation should be, Cruz said, “The focus ought to be on Joe Biden; this is not on Hunter Biden.”
Concerns about Trump “personally earning himself benefiting his family by selling governmental favors to opponents, hostile foreign regimes” have been voiced by the Texas Republican.
A prominent Republican in the House of Representatives has made statements along these lines.
During a press conference on Monday, Kentucky Republican Representative James Comer said his committee would issue subpoenas to “examine if this administration is corrupted or affected by foreign cash” once he becomes chairman of the House oversight committee in January 2023.
Comer summed up the results of his investigation by calling it “a study of Joe Biden.”
The White House has called the Republican concerns about Hunter Biden’s laptop “politically driven assaults filled with long-debunked conspiracy theories” this week.
White House Counsel’s Office spokesman Ian Sams said on Thursday that Republicans in Congress would rather attack President Biden politically than work with him to lower costs and other issues of importance to the American people.
Joe Biden, the President, “will not allow these political assaults to distract him from working on the concerns of Americans,” he said. Instead of wasting resources on political payback, we’d rather see congressional Republicans work with us to find solutions.
Democrats, who hold the majority in the House at the moment, have decided not to look into the allegations of wrongdoing. The probe into Trump’s presidency, however, goes on.