{"id":1990741,"date":"2023-08-04T10:31:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T14:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/washington-post-fact-checker-rewinds-clock-to-slam-biden-with-4-pinocchios-for-hunter-claim-from-3-years-ago\/"},"modified":"2023-08-04T10:32:49","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T14:32:49","slug":"washington-post-fact-checker-rewinds-clock-to-slam-biden-with-4-pinocchios-for-hunter-claim-from-3-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/washington-post-fact-checker-rewinds-clock-to-slam-biden-with-4-pinocchios-for-hunter-claim-from-3-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post Fact Checker Rewinds Clock to Slam Biden with 4 Pinocchios for Hunter Claim from 3 Years Ago"},"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\">38<\/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%2Fwashington-post-fact-checker-rewinds-clock-to-slam-biden-with-4-pinocchios-for-hunter-claim-from-3-years-ago%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=1990741&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 Washington Post Fact Checker Slams\u2062 Biden with 4 Pinocchios for\u2064 False\u2062 Hunter Claim<\/h2>\n<p>The Washington \u200dPost has retroactively dinged\u200c President\u2062 Joe Biden for making the false claim \u200cthat his son\u200b Hunter Biden never earned any money from Chinese business deals\u200c during a presidential debate in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Biden has claimed \u200cthroughout the past several years\u2064 that his family did not profit from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/issa-congress-must-probe-big-tech-media-collusion-in-shutting-down-hunter-biden-story-before-election\/\" title=\"Issa: Congress Must Probe Big Tech, Media Collusion in Shutting Down Hunter Biden Story Before Election\">overseas business deals<\/a> and that he never <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michael-che-defends-elon-musks-snl-appearance\/\" title=\"Michael Che Defends Elon Musk\u2019s SNL Appearance\">discussed business<\/a> at all \u2064with his son.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans in \u2064the House\u2063 and Senate are currently investigating an alleged Biden family influence-peddling\u2064 scheme\u2062 with\u2064 the president at the top.<\/p>\n<p>There are credible claims the Biden name has been used for years for the family to cash in on its power.<\/p>\n<p>But what is indisputable is that Hunter Biden did in fact earn \u2062a lot of\u2063 money in China, which his father denied \u2063during a debate with then-President Donald Trump on Oct 22, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>As the \u2064two men clashed, Biden denied allegations that his political career was used to enrich himself and his family.<\/p>\n<p>He ended up lying during questions from the debate\u2019s moderator, NBC\u2019s Kristen Welker.<\/p>\n<h3>Welker\u2064 asked Biden, \u201cVice President Biden, there have been questions about the work your son has \u2063done in China and for\u2062 a \u200cUkrainian\u200b energy company when you were vice president; in retrospect, was anything about those relationships inappropriate\u2062 or unethical?\u201d<\/h3>\n<p>Biden responded, \u201cNothing\u200d was unethical.\u2062 \u2026\u200b My son has not made money in terms of this thing about, what are you talking\u200d about, \u2063China. I have not had \u2026 the only guy who made money from China is this guy [Donald Trump]. He\u2019s the only one. Nobody else has made money from\u2064 China.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler took another look\u2062 at the statement earlier this week after it was divulged that Hunter Biden\u2062 told a judge last week he\u200d had made a lot\u2063 of \u200cmoney\u200b abroad.<\/p>\n<p>As Politico \u2062reported, once Hunter\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/washington-post-fact-checker-rewinds-clock-to-slam-biden-with-4-pinocchios-for-hunter-claim-from-3-years-ago\/\" title=\"Washington Post Fact Checker gives Biden 4 Pinocchios for 3-year-old Hunter claim.\">plea bargain \u200bfell<\/a> apart on\u2062 charges of tax dodging\u2063 and a gun charge, he told a\u2063 Delaware judge he cashed checks from\u200c an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/office-mates-joe-and-hunter-biden-shared-office-with-chinese-energy-firm-linked-to-chinese-intelligence\/\" title=\"\u2018Office Mates\u2019: Joe and Hunter Biden Shared Office with Chinese Energy Firm Linked to Chinese Intelligence\u00a0\">energy firm linked<\/a> \u200bto the \u2064Chinese \u200cCommunist Party.<\/p>\n<p>The first son\u2063 told Judge Maryellen Noreika that beginning in 2017, he hauled in $664,000 from CEFC Energy.<\/p>\n<p>With Hunter Biden\u2019s own words now part of the record, the Post revisited Joe\u2063 Biden\u2019s debate claim.<\/p>\n<p>Kessler \u2064wrote, \u201cBut now,\u2064 nearly three years \u200dlater, Biden\u2019s assertions have \u200cbeen directly rebutted \u200cby Hunter\u200c himself. In\u2064 court testimony last week, the younger Biden acknowledged that he\u2062 in\u200c fact had been paid substantial sums\u200d in China\u2063 \u2014 the first official confirmation that this was the case.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Post reported Hunter Biden earned \u2064$2.4 million in 2017\u200c and $2.2 million in 2018, which mostly came from \u201cChinese or Ukrainian \u2063interests.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Given the younger Biden\u2019s statements\u200b under oath, Kessler revisited Biden\u2019s nearly three-year-old debate claim.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s possible\u200c he purposely tailored his answer to \u200bjust the period when he was vice president, but\u2063 Biden has never been known for such parsing of\u2062 language,\u201d Kessler wrote. \u200d\u201cThe president tends to be sloppier in his phrasing \u2014 which often gets him into trouble.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kessler awarded the president four Pinocchios and concluded, \u201cBut \u200bthe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-to-believe-when-experts-lie\/\" title=\"What to Believe When Experts Lie?\">fact remains<\/a> that Biden, during the debate, denied his son\u200d had made money in China. In court last week, his son has said he earned hundreds of thousands of dollars from Chinese \u2063business deals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/washington-post-fact-checker-rewinds-clock-slam-biden-4-pinocchios-hunter-claim-3-years-ago\/\">Washington\u200d Post Fact Checker\u200d Rewinds Clock to Slam Biden with 4 Pinocchios for Hunter Claim from 3 Years Ago<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post has retroactively dinged President Joe Biden for making the false claim that his son Hunter Biden never earned any money from Chinese business deals during a presidential debate in 2020. Biden has claimed throughout the past several years that his family did not profit from overseas business deals and that he never<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2006,"featured_media":1990742,"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":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1990741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"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\/1990741","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\/2006"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1990741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1990742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1990741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1990741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1990741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}