White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre declined to answer a question on Wednesday about the payments that House Republicans say President Biden’s family received from a Chinese energy company.
“House Oversight says they have bank records showing a Chinese energy company paying three Biden family members through a third party. What were they paid for?” Fox News’ Peter Doocy asked during the daily White House press briefing.
“Look, I’m just not going to respond to that from here,” Jean-Pierre replied quickly. “Look, for years, and years, and years, we’ve been hearing from House Republicans the inaccuracies and lies on this issue.”
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White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre listens to John Kirby, National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications, during a daily news briefing in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on March 22, 2023 in Washington, D.C. DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
“I don’t even know where to start to answer that question because again, it’s lies and lies and inaccuracies over the years. And I’m just not going to get into it from here,” she said.
Jean-Pierre’s refusal to answer comes on the heels of the House Oversight Committee, led by Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., who revealed that financial records showed “at least three family members” received lucrative payments from a bank account to a Biden business associate who worked with Hunter Biden and Jim Biden, the president’s brother, in a joint venture called Sinohawk Holdings, which was intended to be a partnership with Chinese energy company CEFC.
According to the records, the Biden family received $1 million in payments, though Biden denied any payments were made when approached by a reporter on the subject last Friday.
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Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., Will is the chairman of the House Oversight Committee in the new GOP majority. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
However, liberal news network CNN admitted last week that the revelations certainly don’t “look good” for the Bidens as they face government investigations into their alleged corruption.
Comer has since called on Biden to correct his “unfair” refusal of the payments and has kept to bank records obtained by his committee. “The committee is concerned about the national security implications if a president’s or vice president’s immediate family receives such lucrative financial deals from foreigners and foreign companies without any oversight,” Comer wrote in a letter to Jean-Pierre on Tuesday.
President Biden exits Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Monday, February 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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Brooke Singman and Gabriel Hays of Fox News contributed to this report.
Brandon Gillespie is an associate editor at Fox News. Follow him on Twitter at @brandon_cg.
