President Joe Biden has avoided acknowledging that little four-year-old Navy Joan Roberts is his granddaughter. Her mother, former Washington, D.C. stripper Lunden Roberts, petitioned an Arkansas court last December to change her surname to Biden.
“The child would benefit from carrying the Biden family name,” the motion said. “Just like her father and other family members.” Her motion asserted that changing her surname would “greatly impact and preserve her legacy as a member of the Biden family.”
His White House likewise wants to avoid discussion the embarrassment that his son, Hunter, fathered the child out of wedlock with a stripper. Roberts danced at a club just a few blocks from the White House. Hunter Biden was dating his sister-in-law, Hallie, at the time of his sexual encounter with Roberts.
What Joe Biden Is Saying…And Not Saying
The president told a child at a take your children to work event last week that he only had six grandchildren.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre dodge a reporter’s questions about the child.
“I’m not going to speak to that from here,” Jean-Pierre said quickly before moving on.
Fox News reported that reporters could be heard asking, “Why not?”
Hunter Biden In Legal Trouble
Hunter Biden appeared in an Arkansas courtroom on Monday in response to a contempt motion by Roberts’ attorney, Clint Lancaster. He has been seeking to reduce the reported $22,000 per month in child support that the court imposed on him in 2020, suggesting that he has had a radical financial change.
Lancaster filed a motion for discovery to examine Hunter Biden’s finances. He questioned how the younger Biden could afford his high-priced lawyers including, Abbe Lowell, and claim poverty.
Circuit Judge Holly Meyer ordered Biden to respond to Lancaster’s questions about his finances and to make them available for him to examine.
“If you come saying you want to reduce your child support, you need to show me why,” Meyer said.
Former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer told Fox News’ “America Reports” that the case is an embarrassment for the president because it opens questions about what Joe Biden knew.
“It is a bigger story. And the story really gets to the heart of Joe Biden and Joe Biden’s lies about what his son, Hunter Biden, did in all kinds of things but mostly in his business dealings where Joe Biden said he didn’t know anything,” Fleischer said. “This is a White House that rallies around the president’s son. I understand that. But they’re rallying around him to protect the president – so the president’s lies don’t come out.”
Fleischer continued noting that sworn statements in court affidavits “have a way of undermining White Houses.”
He recalled that back in 2001 the press bombarded him with questions after Jenna Bush, then a teenaged freshman in college, was arrested for underage drinking at a bar. The press asks far less questions of the Biden White House about Hunter Biden than he faced at the start of the George W. Bush presidency.
“And that just shows you, as you indicated earlier, President Biden acts as if he doesn’t need the press, it’s because he already has the press.”
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John Rossomando was a senior analyst for Defense Policy and served as Senior Analyst for Counterterrorism at The Investigative Project on Terrorism for eight years. His work has been featured in numerous publications such as The American Thinker, Daily Wire, Red Alert Politics, CNSNews.com, The Daily Caller, Human Events, Newsmax, The American Spectator, TownHall.com, and Crisis Magazine. He also served as senior managing editor of The Bulletin, a 100,000-circulation daily newspaper in Philadelphia, and received the Pennsylvania Associated Press Managing Editors first-place award in 2008 for his reporting.
