(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Lawmakers have sharply criticized President Joe Biden for his stunning reversal of his previous denials of discussing his son’s business dealings. Biden, who in 2019 said he had never spoken to Hunter about foreign business dealings, now claimed that he had never “been” in business with his son.
In separate interviews on Fox News on Wednesday, Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman John Smith, R-Mo., expressed their outrage at what they consider a blatant flip-flop by the president.
Kennedy strongly criticized the Biden administration’s dismissal of the serious allegations, stating, “The White House’s story is that the president knew nothing about any of this, and I mean, it just doesn’t pass the smell test.” He further questioned the credibility of Biden’s claims of ignorance regarding Hunter’s foreign businesses.
Kennedy presented a hypothetical scenario to highlight his point.
“Suppose you are an important government official and very powerful, and your grown kid comes home one day and says, ‘Dad, good news! A bunch of Russian companies; and Chinese companies; and Romanian companies, and Ukrainian companies have just hired me. They’re giving me millions of dollars to give them advice about stuff I don’t know anything about,'” Kennedy said in reference to Biden’s dismissal of Hunter’s dealings.
“What are you going to do as a responsible government official? You are not going to say, ‘Don’t tell me anything about it, but be sure and share some with your sister.’ You are going to try to find out what’s going on,” Kennedy added.
Chairman Smith echoed Kennedy’s concerns and raised questions about Biden’s previous claims of ignorance.
Previously Joe Biden has said he knew nothing about Hunter Biden's business dealings. Now the White House says the President was not involved.
Why are they changing their stories now? pic.twitter.com/IanAMWancU
— Rep. Jason Smith (@RepJasonSmith) July 6, 2023
He referred to the released whistleblower’s testimony, which included a WhatsApp message implicating Biden in his son’s dealings with a Chinese business official. “‘I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled,” the text message read, directly contradicting Biden’s 2019 claims.
Smith remarked, “That’s pretty telling, and now the White House is saying that they’re not involved in his son’s business dealings, not that he didn’t know about it but not that they are involved. Let me tell you, it all smells too bad.”
Smith emphasized the ongoing investigations by the Republican-led Ways and Means, Judiciary and the Oversight committees, stating, “We are following the facts to see where they lead us. That’s why we’ve requested almost a dozen additional individuals to come in for testimony to get down to the facts.”
