White House bans The Post from Biden event as Hunter indictment looms

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WASHINGTON โ€” The White House press office barred The Post from attending President Bidenโ€™s only daytime public event Monday as federal prosecutors near a decision on criminally charging first son Hunter Biden for tax fraud and other crimes.

The Post has closely covered the presidentโ€™s ties to his relativesโ€™ foreign dealings and first reported in October 2020 on files from Hunterโ€™s abandoned laptop that link Joe Biden to ventures in China and Ukraine.

Biden, who falsely characterized The Postโ€™s reporting as Russian disinformation, appeared with Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to talk about airline policies in the White House-adjacent Eisenhower Executive Office Building.

Biden ultimately took no shouted questions at the venue, which houses the set of a โ€œfakeโ€ White House and about 50 theater-style seats for reporters โ€” about 20 of which were empty Monday.

In the same room this February, Biden chose to answer The Postโ€™s query about whether his familyโ€™s links to China compromised his ability to steer US policy. He fumed about the lack of โ€œpoliteโ€ reporters and stormed out.

The Post has the fifth-largest news website by US readership โ€” or fourth when excluding aggregator MSN. It is the nationโ€™s second-most-read newspaper online and as of last year, The Post had the fifth-largest print circulation.

In a Monday email, however, White House staff said: โ€œWe are unable to accommodate your credential request to attend theย Investing in Airline Accountability Remarksย on 5/8. The remarks will be live-streamed and can be viewed atย WH.gov. Thank you for understanding.ย We will let you know if a credential becomes available.โ€

The email does not claim that the exclusion is due to โ€œspace limitationsโ€ โ€” an excuse that was used until recently to justify the press officeโ€™s mysteriousย prescreening of reportersย let into large presidential events, which under past administrations were open to all journalists on White House grounds.

Byย Steven Nelson

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