White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre deflected a question from a reporter on Tuesday asking if President Biden lied about his involvement in family business schemes.
"Look, I’m not going to get into, you know, get into the specifics of any oversight here," Jean-Pierre said, directing questions to White House counsel who would be handling the matter.
At the center of controversy surrounding Hunter is a laptop, which during the presidential campaign was left at a repair shop in Delaware. The New York Post reported on the many documents on that laptop in October 2020, which detailed questionable overseas business dealings that are now part of an ongoing federal tax probe into Hunter, who was under federal investigation since 2018. President Biden has claimed he had no knowledge of his son's dealings.
The probe was sparked by suspicious activity reports regarding questionable foreign transactions from"China and other foreign nations." In 2020, it became known that the FBI subpoenaed the laptop during an existing money laundering investigation.Get all the stories you need-to-know from the most powerful name in news delivered first thing every morning to your inbox
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