(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) After four years of actively ignoring the existence of his four-year-old granddaughter, Navy, President Joe Biden on Friday used a scripted memo served up to a regime-friendly media outlet to finally acknowledge the familial tie.
The president and the Biden clan have consistently shunned the young child since she was born out-of-wedlock to First Son Hunter Biden and former stripper Lunden Roberts. As recently as two months ago, Biden again disappeared Navy from the family, even as Hunter was reportedly ducking child-support by hiding at the White House.
Hunter used a powerhouse legal team to decimate his child support payments for Navy, shill his paintings to cover parts of the reduced tab and force Roberts to drop her request to give her daughter Biden’s name as part of the agreement. As part of the erasure narrative, White House staff had been instructed to either deny the existence of, or ignore questions about the Biden’s seventh grandchild.
For a White House 2021 holiday bash, the Biden’s displayed six Christmas stockings for their grandchildren, omitting Navy, but including one stocking for their dog.
NEW: In a pre-written statement published at 5pm on a Friday night, Joe Biden acknowledges his seventh grandchild for the very first time.
It took him more than four years. pic.twitter.com/N1TrbojQMo
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) July 28, 2023
While stopping short of calling it outright child abuse, Fox News host Jesse Watters blasted Biden for a disgraceful political stunt that used his granddaughter in a desperate attempt to polish his own image and divert avert attention from multiple scandals and legal woes engulfing the president.
“In a week when Hunter’s plea deal exposes the family’s corruption and Republican’s float an impeachment inquiry and we find out about off-shore bank accounts, the White House places a written statement with a tabloid at 5:00 on a summer Friday,” Watters said.
“With the cocaine scandal, the bribery scandal, the callousness of ignoring your own flesh and blood, Joe Biden’s family-man, middle-class brand is in tatters. And a PR stunt at this point — not going to cut it.”
Watters wasn’t alone in condemning Biden’s suspect motives for suddenly offering public acknowledgement of Navy.
Joe and Jill Biden’s rejection of their granddaughter for four years, while refusing to tell Hunter to grow up and take responsibility for his daughter, and now issuing an acknowledgment in People Magazine to get good PR says so much about who they are. Absolutely disgusting.
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) July 28, 2023
“How bad was the polling for them to change course on this? Don’t forget they literally sent out a memo ordering people to say there were only 6 grandchildren,” tweeted Post Millennial editor Ari Hoffman. “What a vicious monster,” Turning Point USA’s Benny Johnson ripped, while another tweet cracked, “The handlers want to take focus off the Biden Racketeering scandal.”
Friday night news dump: Joe Biden has finally acknowledged his granddaughter, Navy Roberts. It took him four years to acknowledge the four-year-old even existed. pic.twitter.com/M3HNCFYrmb
— Jesse Watters (@JesseBWatters) July 29, 2023
“Let’s be honest,” Watters said of the president’s stunt. “Joe acknowledged his granddaughter after four years because his brand was taking a beating. He was shamed into doing this.”
