By Patrick Reilly | New York Post
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre once again declined to answer questions about President Biden’s estranged granddaughter following a weekend report claiming that aides are told not to acknowledge Hunter’s child with a former stripper.
Jean Pierre was asked about the New York Times’ bombshell report Saturday on 4-year-old Navy Joan Roberts, whom Hunter Biden shares with Arkansas baby mama Lunden Alexis Roberts, at Wednesday’s press briefing.
“There was a story in the New York Times over the weekend about Hunter Biden’s daughter in Arkansas. Does the president acknowledge this little girl as his granddaughter?” a reporter asked.
“I don’t have anything to share from here,” Jean-Pierre bluntly responded.
The White House has refused to answer any questions pertaining to Roberts’ and Hunter Biden’s years-long child support dispute.
White House aides have reportedly been told for years in “strategy meetings” that President Biden only has six grandkids — excluding Hunter’s toddler with Roberts, according to the Times report.
The commander-in-chief has claimed on several occasions that he only has six grandchildren, even making the declaration at the White House’s “Take Your Child to Work Day” event in April.
“I have six grandchildren, and I’m crazy about them. And I speak to them every single day. Not a joke,” he said at the event, according to Fox News.
Biden’s other grandchildren are Naomi, 29, Finnegan, 22, and Maisy, 21, Hunter’s daughters with ex-wife Kathleen Buhle; Natalie, 18, and Robert, 16, the children of his late son Beau Biden and wife Hallie; and 3-year-old Beau, Hunter’s son with current wife Melissa Cohen.
Last month, the embattled first son settled his child support case with Roberts.
Many of the financial specifications have been redacted, however, the strange settlement stipulates that Roberts will drop her demand that he allow their daughter to have the Biden family name in exchange for an undisclosed number of paintings to be provided by Hunter for an undisclosed amount of time.
Hunter Biden once denied ever meeting Roberts, but text messages from his abandoned laptop revealed that she was on the payroll of his consulting firm while pregnant with Navy Joan.
A paternity test confirmed Roberts’ claims that Hunter was the father of her child.
The younger Biden subsequently agreed to cough up $20,000 in monthly child support payments in 2020.
The most recent settlement allegedly significantly slashed the support to $5,000 a month.
The first son also agreed to pay Roberts’ attorney fees and court costs as part of the deal.
Hunter “has never seen or contacted” Navy, while the president and first lady Jill Biden “remain estranged” from her, Roberts claimed in court documents in April.
“Lunden is a great mom, and little Navy is going be fine,” Roberts’ lawyer, Clint Lancaster, told The Post last month.
“The kid has lots of love on the maternal side of the family in Batesville. They are a very, very close family. They adore her and are always going to support her … But I think everybody is disappointed that there’s not more contact [with the Biden family].”
