Let’s play a game this Saturday night. Can you figure out what’s different about the latest White House talking point as it relates to President Joe Biden and his latchkey son’s business dealings?
On Friday, White House spokesman Ian Sams issued a statement on behalf of the president in response to questions about the release of the IRS Whistleblower’s transcripts alleging that Hunter threatened a Chinese Communist official while his father was in the room. That claim was the least scandalous of all — believe it or not — but it did cast further doubt on Joe’s defense that he never had anything to do with his son’s seemingly improbable career.
“As we have said many times before, the president was not in business with his son. As we have also said many times before, the Justice Department makes decisions in its criminal investigations independently, and in this case, the White House has not been involved,” Sams said. “As the president has said, he loves his son…