Hunter Biden walked up to the mother of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy at the White House state dinner honoring French President Emmanuel Macron last month and told the 82-year-old she looked “beautiful,” according to a report.
President Biden’s son was among the first of the guests to arrive at the lavish function, and among the few other early arrivals were McCarthy (R-Calif.) and his mother, Roberta, according to a New York Times report Wednesday. Despite the California Republican’s vows to investigate Hunter and his father, the first son and his wife approached McCarthy and his mother, and the two men shook hands, according to the news outlet.
“Mrs. McCarthy, you look beautiful,” Hunter Biden told Roberta McCarthy, a person who was present told the New York Times.
“I’m a friend of your son’s,” Biden added with a smile, according to the news outlet.
It had previously been reported that the House speaker and first son chatted at the Dec. 1, 2022, state dinner, but the details of their seemingly brief conversation were unknown at the time.
The Washington Post reported in December that to some people who witnessed the interaction, it seemed like a “classic Biden-style moment of trying to charm an adversary.”
Following The Post’s October 2020 expose about Hunter Biden’s overseas business dealings, Republicans, primarily led by new House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.), have been eager to investigate whether the 80-year-old president was involved or benefited from his son’s overseas business dealings. Comer has said he believes the entire Biden family was involved, raising national security concerns.
The New York Times reported Wednesday that David C. Weiss, the US attorney for Delaware tasked with heading a federal investigation into Hunter Biden, is closing in on a decision about whether to prosecute him.
According to the report, Weiss is focused on possible charges related to Hunter’s alleged failure to meet filing deadlines for his 2016 and 2017 tax returns, possibly $30,000 in fraudulent deductions he made for business expenses, and falsely stating on a US government form that he was not using drugs when he purchased a handgun in 2018.
Friends, huh?
Hunter really screwed Kevin over when he said they were friends. Could you imagine the ride home?
She was probably telling him, what did he mean when he said you were friends? I taught better than to have friends like him. Then, the lecture would start about friends.
That’s how my car ride home would’ve been like with my mom. Lol
God bless her. She IS one good looking woman, right up my alley. I’d taker her out for dinner anytime.
If that little bastard asserted himself as being my friend I’d run his ass over with a truck just so there would be no doubt as to my thoughts on the subject.