White House dodges question about whether it knew about Hunter Biden’s aggressive new legal strategy
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The White House declined on Thursday to say whether the president’s team knew in advance about Hunter Biden’s aggressive new legal strategy, which included his lawyer sending letters to the Justice Department and Delaware AG seeking investigations.
On Wednesday, Hunter Biden’s lawyers sent letters requesting investigations and retractions related to Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop, which a Delaware computer store owner says he provided to Rudy Giuliani.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre did not say whether people in the White House knew in advance about the new strategy, which comes amid Republican investigations into members of the Biden family.
As for that piece, I would refer you to the White House Law Office. And again, I have nothing to add. This is something for your personal representatives to talk about,” he said when asked about it by DailyMail.com.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre did not directly respond to a question about whether the White House knew in advance about Hunter Biden’s legal strategy. Her lawyer wrote to the Justice Department requesting an investigation into the people who copied and shared Hunter’s infamous laptop.
Jean-Pierre, who repeatedly on Wednesday and in the past emphasized efforts to avoid commenting on the Justice Department and the investigations, was asked if the letters from the president’s son’s lawyer constituted pressure on investigators.
I’m going to be pretty consistent, like I’ve been since this podium when it comes to that. That particular question you’re asking me we’ve been asking for the last two years. And I’ll tell you that that’s something for Hunter Biden’s personal representative, his representative to talk about him is just not going to speak from here.
I knew it before it happened,” he said.
She referred the question to the White House counsel’s office, saying she “has nothing to add.”
‘And as far as agencies are concerned, as I was asked, look, this is a president and I’ve said this before that he believes in the independence of the Department of Justice, or any enforcement investigation, and he’s been very clear about that. . He believes that he should not be politicized as he has said in the past,’ he said.
His comments came as former White House ethics watchdog Richard Painter called for a “firewall” between the White House and Hunter Biden’s growing team of lawyers.
Painter said Hunter Biden is a “private citizen, so he’ll reveal whatever he has to,” but said foxnews the first child “probably gets away with not revealing any of it.”
“Like with these paintings you are selling and you should disclose who is buying the artwork, but you are not,” Painter added. “And it will probably follow the same approach for the legal defense fund.”
His comments came after former Donald Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani responded to Hunter’s new legal strategy of seeking investigations and retractions of information linked to Hunter’s infamous laptop, and accused a top attorney leading the effort of “unethical” conduct.
Giuliani, who had his own New York law license suspended following his efforts to help Trump overturn the 2020 election results, called it an effort to launch an “illegal” investigation.
He spoke a day after it was revealed that Hunter Biden’s new lawyer, Abbe Lowell, sought government investigations into efforts to circulate emails and images from Hunter’s laptop, which Hunter Biden reportedly abandoned in a Wilmington computer repair shop.
‘This is completely, I don’t know how to describe it.
It’s unethical on the lawyers’ part, because it’s frivolous,” Giuliani said during a late-night podcast from West Palm Beach.
Former Donald Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani slammed ‘frivolous’ letters from Hunter Biden’s legal team directed at people who obtained or distributed Hunter’s infamous laptop
“The complaint that we should be investigated is an attempt to have a Democratic-leaning public official launch yet another illegal investigation,” he fumed, with a reference to the first Democrat-driven impeachment effort on Trump’s effort to get a Biden investigation.
“The claim that we should be investigated is an attempt to have a Democratic-leaning public official launch yet another illegal investigation,” he said.
Giuliani also tweeted an image of the 2019 repair order that the store’s owner, Mac Isaac, said was signed by a Hunter Biden lookalike leaving behind broken machines. He states that it will be considered ‘abandoned property’ 90 days after the service is complete.
Having steered clear of the laptop saga since it was first revealed weeks before the 2020 election, Hunter’s legal team, which is taking a more aggressive stance, doesn’t seem satisfied with that fine print. He is going after the owner of the repair shop, as well as Giuliani, his lawyer Robert Costello and former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, who received or helped distribute the material.
He criticized Hunter Biden’s lawyer, Abbe Lowell, pointing to a repair slip that covered ‘abandoned’ property for 90 days, as the repair shop owner says Hunter’s laptop was
Giuliani tweeted a laptop repair slip
Hunter’s team wants a retraction of Fox News host Tucker Carlson
Letters to the Department of Justice and the Delaware Attorney General.
Lowell wrote to the AG that there are ‘considerable reasons to believe [they] violated various Delaware laws by accessing, copying, manipulating and/or disseminating data from Mr. Biden’s personal computer.
“These illegal actions led to the widespread publication, manipulation, and exploitation of Mr. Biden’s most personal information,” Lowell wrote.
The barrage of letters also included a letter to Fox News demanding the retraction of on-air statements about Hunter Biden, and stating that failure to do so would reveal “actual malice,” code base for a defamation lawsuit.
Referencing the letter to Delaware AG Kathy Jennings, Giuliani said: “Unless the AG burns it immediately and refers the lawyers for ethics discipline, then he is [stet] just a Biden game,’ he said.
DailyMail.com has reached out to Lowell for a response.
A three-member panel in Washington, DC also found that Giuliani violated the rules for lawyers as part of his effort to overturn the 2020 election, though the matter is unresolved.
“This certainly looks like a tailor-made RICO case and that’s why they’re trying to cover it up,” said Ted Goodman, Giuliani’s political and communications adviser.