{"id":1744911,"date":"2022-11-19T09:03:25","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T14:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1744911"},"modified":"2022-11-19T10:03:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T15:03:00","slug":"karine-jean-pierre-turns-into-stuttering-mess-when-questioned-about-bidens-involvement-with-hunters-business-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/karine-jean-pierre-turns-into-stuttering-mess-when-questioned-about-bidens-involvement-with-hunters-business-deals\/","title":{"rendered":"Karine Jean-Pierre Turns Into Stuttering Mess When Questioned About Biden&#8217;s Involvement with Hunter&#8217;s Business Deals"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkarine-jean-pierre-turns-into-stuttering-mess-when-questioned-about-bidens-involvement-with-hunters-business-deals%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1744911&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>If you don\u2019t have time to read this entire commentary, let me paraphrase the key point for you in a couple of summary sentences.<\/p>\n<p><em>Reporter: How involved was President Joe Biden in the shady business dealings of his close relatives?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre: Oh, goodness, look at my wrist! I have to go.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The actual exchange, on display for the world to see in the video below, took more than a minute to get through, but that\u2019s essentially what happened.<\/p>\n<p>According to the official White House <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/press-briefings\/2022\/11\/18\/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-karine-jean-pierre-november-18-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">transcript<\/a> of the exchange, the question asked was:<\/p>\n<div id=\"in-article-trending\" class=\"in-article-more inner-content\">\n<p>Trending:<\/p>\n<div class=\"in-article-more-right\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/photos-bidens-cheat-sheet-makes-appearance-humiliates-us-abroad\/\" data-type=\"Internal link\" data-type-location=\"in-content-trending\">We Have the Photos: Biden&#8217;s Cheat Sheet Makes Appearance as He Humiliates US Abroad<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe top Republican on the House Oversight Committee, Congressman [James] Comer, has said that he\u2019s investigating the President\u2019s involvement in his son Hunter\u2019s foreign business dealings. One, looking for your reaction to that. And then, on the merits of the allegations, can you address whether the President was involved in any of his son Hunter or his brother\u2019s foreign business deals?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Also, going by the official transcript, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/border-patrol-agents-blow-whistle-white-house-press-secretarys-claim-either-extremely-dumb-flat-lying\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jean-Pierre<\/a> began her reply with: \u201cSo, look, you know, there\u2019s \u2014 there\u2019s some \u2014 a little bit of interesting, you know, kind of, on-brand thinking here because, you know, congressional Republicans ran saying that they were going to fight inflation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s pretty close; they skipped a few of the \u201cums\u201d and such, but try reading that response out loud and you get the sense that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/white-house-press-secretary-laughs-deflects-don-lemon-asks-tough-question-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jean-Pierre<\/a> is working hard to buy some time to come up with response to that question.<\/p>\n<p>Which, in-and-of-itself, is interesting, as it raises the question of why in the world she would not have been prepared for such an obvious inquiry from the White House media after a midterm election that put Republicans solidly in charge of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-gop-probe-bidens-foreign-ties-full-swing-less-24-hours-taking-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">House of Representatives<\/a> \u2014 and Hunter Biden directly in the sights of House Republicans who have been promising for months to investigate the president\u2019s son after the midterms.<\/p>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-container\" class=\"one-half\">\n<p>Do you think Biden was involved with Hunter&#8217;s business dealings?<\/p>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-results\">\n<p>\nYes: 0% (0 Votes)\n<\/p>\n<p>\nNo: 0% (0 Votes)\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>You\u2019ll notice that she didn\u2019t even try to bring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/first-swalwell-now-biden-gop-sets-sights-hunters-former-secretary-ex-chinese-government-employee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hunter Biden<\/a> or his father into her response initially. In fact, it took her several sentences to get there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey said they were going to make that a priority,\u201d she said. \u201cThey were very clear about that these past several months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd instead, what they\u2019re doing is they\u2019re focusing \u2014 you know, they\u2019re focusing \u2014 they\u2019re making their top priority \u2014 they get the majority, and their top priority is actually not focusing on the American families but focusing on the President\u2019s family.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re not coming up with solutions on how we\u2019re going to lower costs for Amer \u2014 for American families.\u00a0 They\u2019re not coming up with solutions as to how are we dealing with issues that matter the most to American families.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not the worst spin I\u2019ve ever heard, but it would have been far more effective had it not taken her so long to think of it on the fly.<\/p>\n<div id=\"in-article-related\" class=\"in-article-more inner-content\">\n<p>Related:<\/p>\n<div class=\"in-article-more-right\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wh-press-sec-believes-bidens-coal-comments-twisted-give-straight\/\" data-type=\"Internal link\" data-type-location=\"in-content-related\">WH Press Sec Believes Biden&#8217;s Coal Comments &#8216;Were Twisted&#8217; So Let&#8217;s Give Them to You Straight<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Watch for yourself and see what you think:<\/p>\n<p>The truth that Jean-Pierre doesn\u2019t want you to know is that her boss is nervous. He knows his agenda is dead \u2014 he\u2019s not going to get anything passed through the House for the next two years and he still lacks the votes to overcome the filibuster in the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>And now he faces House investigations into his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/hunter-bidens-former-business-partner-spills-beans-tucker-carlson-called-fraud\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">son\u2019s business dealings<\/a> that might implicate him in some shadiness \u2014 and the mainstream media loves a good scandal, especially when the target is a lame-duck president for whom they no longer need to run interference, because even with their assistance he can\u2019t get anything passed.<\/p>\n<p>Biden may not know a lot of things, but he knows how the media works, and it\u2019s got him worried.<\/p>\n<p>It seems to be having the same effect on his press secretary.<\/p>\n<div id=\"author-info-44802\" class=\"author-info inner-content\">\n<div class=\"author-image\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/georgeupper\/\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/static.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/George-Upper-Profile-Glasses-George-Upper-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-meta-text\">\n<p>Contributing Editor<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"author-tabs\">\n<input type=\"radio\" name=\"ff-author-tab-44802\" value=\"summary-tab\" id=\"summary-tab-radio-44802\" checked \/><label for=\"summary-tab-radio-44802\">Summary<\/label><input type=\"radio\" name=\"ff-author-tab-44802\" value=\"more-info-tab\" id=\"more-info-tab-radio-44802\" \/><label for=\"more-info-tab-radio-44802\">More<span class=\"rmation\"> Biographical Information<\/span><\/label><input type=\"radio\" name=\"ff-author-tab-44802\" value=\"posts-tab\" id=\"posts-tab-radio-44802\" \/><label for=\"posts-tab-radio-44802\">Recent<span class=\"rmation\"> Posts<\/span><\/label><input type=\"radio\" name=\"ff-author-tab-44802\" value=\"contact-tab\" id=\"contact-tab-radio-44802\" \/><label for=\"contact-tab-radio-44802\">Contact<\/label><\/p>\n<div class=\"author-tab summary-tab\">\n<p>George Upper is the former Editor-in-Chief of The Western Journal and an occasional co-host of &#8220;WJ Live,&#8221; powered by The Western Journal. He is currently a contributing editor in the areas of faith, politics and culture. A former U.S. Army special operator, teacher and consultant, he is a lifetime member of the NRA and an active volunteer leader in his church. Born in Foxborough, Massachusetts, he has lived most of his life in central North Carolina.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"author-tab more-info-tab\">\n<p>\nGeorge Upper, is the former editor-in-chief of The Western Journal and is now a contributing editor in the areas of faith, politics and culture. He is a former U.S. Army special operator, teacher, manager and consultant. Born in Massachusetts, he graduated from Foxborough High School before joining the Army and spending most of the next three years at Fort Bragg. He holds bachelor&#8217;s and master&#8217;s degrees in English as well as Master&#8217;s in Business Administration, all from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He now lives in central North Carolina with his wife and a Maine Coon named Princess Leia, for whose name he is not responsible. He is active in the teaching and security ministries in his church and is a lifetime member of the NRA. In his spare time he shoots, reads a lot of Lawrence Block and John D. MacDonald, and watches Bruce Campbell movies. He is a fan of individual freedom, Tommy Bahama, fine-point G-2 pens and the Oxford comma.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBirthplace\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFoxborough, Massachusetts\n<\/p>\n<p>\nNationality\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAmerican\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHonors\/Awards\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBeta Gamma Sigma\n<\/p>\n<p>\nEducation\n<\/p>\n<p>\nB.A., English, UNCG; M.A., English, UNCG; MBA, UNCG\n<\/p>\n<p>\nLocation\n<\/p>\n<p>\nNorth Carolina\n<\/p>\n<p>\nLanguages Spoken\n<\/p>\n<p>\nEnglish\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTopics of Expertise\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFaith, Business, Leadership and Management, Military, Politics\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you don\u2019t have time to read this entire commentary, let me paraphrase the key point for you in a couple of summary sentences. 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