Jill Biden insists she loves under-fire stepson Hunter

First lady Jill Biden insisted in a rare personal interview that she loves her stepson Hunter, who is under fire, unconditionally.

President Biden’s wife was asked in an interview with CNN’s Arlette Saenz about an ongoing investigation into Hunter Biden’s taxes and whether he filed a fraudulent form while trying to buy a gun.

She suggested that she doesn’t think the ongoing investigation will have any effect on her husband’s decision to run for re-election in 2024, noting: “We dealt with it, I guess, just by having a different perspective.”

“I want to say that I love Hunter,” Jill said. “I will support him as much as he can and that’s how I see things.”

But the interview came as Republican lawmakers say more than a dozen “whistleblowers” have provided “potentially criminal” information about Hunter Biden to the FBI.

She replied that she loved her stepson under fire unconditionally and that she will support him. They are pictured with the president and Hunter’s son Beau in November.

On Wednesday, Sen. Chuck Grassley, an Iowa Republican, told Attorney General Merrick Garland that the Justice Department must review the president’s son, who was the subject of a federal investigation related to tax matters and a potentially false statement on a form for the purchase of weapons. .

“Recent disclosures from legally protected whistleblowers to my office indicate that the Department of Justice and the FBI had at one time more than a dozen sources that provided potentially criminal information related to Hunter Biden,” said Grassley, who has a long history of dealing with complainants in the Senate.

He and Sen. Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican, previously suggested that the Justice Department investigate public corruption.

They wrote a letter that included 220 pages of bank records just days before the November 2020 election.

However, Garland said he “promised to leave the Hunter Biden matter in the hands of the Delaware U.S. Attorney.”

Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz also brought up the Hunter Biden investigation, in an angry question period in which he accused Garland and the Justice Department of bias in Trump’s review of Jan. 6 and classified documents.

“I think he really wants to impeach Donald J. Trump,” he told Garland, despite his repeated remarks about trying to step back and avoid interference. He has appointed special attorneys in both matters.

Cruz accused the Justice Department of leaking information about the Hunter Biden investigation as a “predicate” to impeach Trump, show impartiality, and show that the department is “impartial.”

He then called for Hunter’s investigation not to focus on the president’s son’s battles with addiction, but instead focus on “connections to his father and possible public corruption.” That is a matter of public interest.

He asked Garland to commit to looking at the “public corruption aspect” and “not just scapegoating Hunter Biden as an individual.”

Hunter Biden has battled addiction and served on the board of directors of the allegedly corrupt Ukrainian gas company Burisma, worked with Russian oligarchs and had a multi-billion dollar deal with a Chinese government-linked oil company.

Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) told a Senate hearing Wednesday that more than a dozen “whistleblowers” came forward with information about Hunter Biden.

Hunter served on the board of directors of the allegedly corrupt Ukrainian gas company Burisma, worked with Russian oligarchs and had a multi-million dollar deal with a Chinese government-linked oil company.

Republicans have accused his father, the president, of knowingly profiting from his son’s business ventures, and in turn claim that Hunter previously took advantage of his father’s influential stature as then-vice president to further his deals abroad.

Such ventures include a handful of large payout deals with members of the Chinese Communist Party, as well as Hunter’s infamous deal with Burisma holdings, which paid the then-VP’s son a whopping $1 million annually, allegedly in exchange for exposure. to Biden.

The allegations were prompted by emails recovered in 2020 from the hard drive of a laptop likely belonging to Hunter Biden, which appear to show him offering meetings with his father to domestic and foreign partners, among other deal-making discussions.

Meanwhile, the gun investigation relates to Hunter Biden’s certification on a 2018 gun purchase form of not being “an illegal user of or addicted to marijuana or any depressant, stimulant, narcotic or any other controlled substance.”