The Washington Post has retroactively dinged President Joe Biden for making the false claim that his son Hunter Biden never earned any money from Chinese business deals during a presidential debate in 2020.<\/p>\n
Biden<\/a> has claimed throughout the past several years that his family did not profit from overseas business deals and that he never discussed<\/a> business at all with his son.<\/p>\n Republicans in the House and Senate are currently investigating an alleged Biden family influence-peddling scheme with the president at the top.<\/p>\n There are credible claims<\/a> the Biden name has been used for years for the family to cash in on its power.<\/p>\n But what is indisputable is that Hunter Biden did in fact earn a lot of money in China, which his father denied during a debate with then-President Donald Trump<\/a> on Oct 22, 2020.<\/p>\n As the two men clashed, Biden denied allegations that his political career was used to enrich himself and his family.<\/p>\n He ended up lying during questions from the debate\u2019s moderator, NBC\u2019s Kristen Welker<\/a>.<\/p>\n Welker asked Biden, \u201cVice President Biden, there have been questions about the work your son has done in China and for a Ukrainian energy company when you were vice president; in retrospect, was anything about those relationships inappropriate or unethical?\u201d<\/p>\n Biden responded, \u201cNothing was unethical. \u2026 My son has not made money in terms of this thing about, what are you talking about, China. I have not had \u2026 the only guy who made money from China is this guy [Donald Trump]. He\u2019s the only one. Nobody else has made money from China.\u201d<\/p>\n Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler took another look<\/a> at the statement earlier this week after it was divulged that Hunter Biden told a judge last week he had made a lot of money abroad.<\/p>\n As Politico<\/a> reported, once Hunter\u2019s plea bargain fell apart on charges of tax dodging and a gun charge, he told a Delaware judge he cashed checks from an energy firm linked to the Chinese Communist Party.<\/p>\n The first son<\/a> told Judge Maryellen Noreika that beginning in 2017, he hauled in $664,000 from CEFC Energy.<\/p>\n With Hunter Biden\u2019s own words now part of the record, the Post revisited Joe Biden\u2019s debate claim.<\/p>\n Kessler wrote, \u201cBut now, nearly three years later, Biden\u2019s assertions have been directly rebutted by Hunter himself. In court testimony last week, the younger Biden acknowledged that he in fact had been paid substantial sums in China \u2014 the first official confirmation that this was the case.\u201d<\/p>\n The Post reported Hunter Biden earned $2.4 million in 2017 and $2.2 million in 2018, which mostly came from \u201cChinese or Ukrainian interests.\u201d<\/p>\n Given the younger Biden\u2019s statements under oath, Kessler revisited Biden\u2019s nearly three-year-old debate claim.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s possible he purposely tailored his answer to just the period when he was vice president, but Biden has never been known for such parsing of language,\u201d Kessler wrote. \u201cThe president tends to be sloppier in his phrasing \u2014 which often gets him into trouble.\u201d<\/p>\n Kessler awarded the president<\/a> four Pinocchios and concluded, \u201cBut the fact remains that Biden, during the debate, denied his son had made money in China. In court last week, his son has said he earned hundreds of thousands of dollars from Chinese business deals.\u201d<\/p>\n This article appeared originally on The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n The post Washington Post Fact Checker Rewinds Clock to Slam Biden with 4 Pinocchios for Hunter Claim from 3 Years Ago<\/a> appeared first on The Gateway Pundit<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Washington Post has retroactively dinged President Joe Biden for making the false claim that his son Hunter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n