The spokesperson initially implied Hunter Biden was staying in Delaware as reporters pointed to court filings that said he was living in California.
White House spokesperson for oversight and investigations Ian Sams explained why Hunter Biden was using his father’s Wilmington, Delaware, home address where payments from Chinese investment fund CEO Jonathan Li were wired.
“Imagine them arguing that, if someone stayed at their parents’ house during the pandemic, listed it as their permanent address for work, and got a paycheck, the parents somehow also worked for the employer,” he wrote on X, formerly Twitter. Mr. Sams is a special assistant to the president and senior adviser to the White House counsel’s office. “It’s bananas. Yet this is what extreme House Republicans have sunken to.”
In a separate post, he said claims that the president received money from China was a “flat-out lie.”
The claim came as a response to a statement made by House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.). The committee has been investigating the financial dealings of the Biden family.
On Tuesday, the committee chairman revealed that the payments were sent to Joe Biden’s home when he was running for president. He had subpoenaed and obtained two bank wires in July and August of 2019, sent from Mr. Li to Mr. Biden. Upwards of $250,000 were paid to Mr. Biden by Mr. Li.
Mr. Comer issued a statement accusing President Biden of lying to the American public when he said that his family never received money from China.
“Bank records don’t lie but President Joe Biden does,” Mr. Comer stated on X.
Mr. Sams’s statement suggests the checks were sent to Mr. Biden, who was residing at the Delaware address. However, court documents filed (pdf) by Mr. Biden’s legal team for a now-defunct plea bargain show he was living in California in 2019.
By Catherine Yang
