{"id":1958478,"date":"2023-06-27T17:11:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T21:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wh-claims-biden-inviting-hunter-to-state-dinners-is-no-different-than-any-previous-president\/"},"modified":"2023-06-27T17:12:02","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T21:12:02","slug":"wh-claims-biden-inviting-hunter-to-state-dinners-is-no-different-than-any-previous-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wh-claims-biden-inviting-hunter-to-state-dinners-is-no-different-than-any-previous-president\/","title":{"rendered":"WH asserts Biden inviting Hunter to state dinners is no distinct from past presidents."},"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\">28<\/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%2Fwh-claims-biden-inviting-hunter-to-state-dinners-is-no-different-than-any-previous-president%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=1958478&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--><h2>The White House Faces Questions Over Hunter Biden&#8217;s Attendance at State Dinner<\/h2>\n<p>The White House found itself in the spotlight for a second day as President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/joe-biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe Biden\u2019s<\/a> embattled son, Hunter, was seen socializing with Washington&#8217;s political elite at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/senator-klobuchar-chuckles-when-asked-about-hunter-biden-going-to-event-attended-by-merrick-garland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/john-kerrys-wife-has-over-1-million-investment-in-hedge-fund-with-ties-to-china-records-show\/\" title=\"John Kerry\u2019s Wife Has Over  Million Investment In Hedge Fund With Ties To China, Records Show\">state dinner<\/a><\/a> over the weekend. This comes just days after Hunter agreed to a plea deal on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lawyer-at-center-of-trump-prosecution-previously-criticized-for-refusal-to-go-after-weinstein-epstein\/\" title=\"Lawyer At Center Of Trump Prosecution Previously Criticized For Refusal To Go After Weinstein, Epstein\">tax-related charges<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/karine-jean-pierre-dodges-question-alluding-hunter-bidens-attendance-white-house-state-dinner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">refused<\/a> to discuss the president&#8217;s decision to have his son at the event. She also declined to comment on any safeguards put in place, considering Hunter is still under investigation for his alleged involvement in a corruption scheme.<\/p>\n<p>During Tuesday&#8217;s briefing, Deputy Press Secretary Olivia Dalton faced questions about the optics of allowing Hunter Biden to attend such events. Fox News correspondent Jacqui Heinrich pressed Dalton on the president&#8217;s decision and the challenges it poses.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JacquiHeinrich?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JacquiHeinrich<\/a>: &#8220;Jen Psaki acknowledged that, optically, that might not have been easier for the WH. Can you elaborate on that at all? The decision to\u2026invite [Hunter] amid everything\u2026and what challenges that poses\u2026to explain?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dalton insists &#8220;Biden has a family&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FUXV0bS4ft\">pic.twitter.com\/FUXV0bS4ft<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CurtisHouck\/status\/1673758844747390981?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 27, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Heinrich questioned the message the president is sending to the American people by inviting his son to the state dinner and Camp David, considering Hunter&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-advances-student-loan-safety-net-program-while-forgiveness-scheme-awaits-fate-before-scotus\/\" title=\"Biden Advances \"Student Loan Safety Net\" Program While Forgiveness Scheme Awaits Fate Before SCOTUS\">ongoing legal issues<\/a>. Dalton responded by stating that every President of the United States has invited their family to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/aoc-gets-engaged-to-longtime-boyfriend\/\" title=\"AOC Gets Engaged To Longtime Boyfriend\">state dinners<\/a>, including President Biden. She emphasized that having Hunter attend was no different and refused to engage further on the topic.<\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Heinrich then referred to former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki&#8217;s statement, acknowledging that having Hunter at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wh-claims-biden-inviting-hunter-to-state-dinners-is-no-different-than-any-previous-president\/\" title=\"WH asserts Biden inviting Hunter to state dinners is no distinct from past presidents.\">state dinner raised concerns<\/a> about optics. Heinrich asked Dalton to elaborate on the challenges this decision poses for the White House. Dalton reiterated that President Biden, like his predecessors, has a family and defended the decision as being in line with past administrations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House faced more scrutiny as President Joe Biden&#8217;s son, Hunter, attended a state dinner after his recent tax-related plea deal. White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre addressed the ongoing questions for a second day on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1958479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1958478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1958478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1958479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1958478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1958478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1958478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}