White House shuts down question about Biden’s seventh grandchild

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That sound you hear is White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre sweeping a Hunter Biden tidbit under the rug.

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Jean-Pierre refused to answer questions about President Joe Biden’s estranged four-year-old granddaughter, Navy Joan, whose parents are their son Hunter and a former stripper.

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During Wednesday’s White House press briefing, Jean-Pierre was asked specifically about a recent story about Navy Joan Roberts and whether the president recognized her as a relation.

“There was a story in the New York Times over the weekend about Hunter Biden’s daughter in Arkansas,” the reporter asked, according to Fox News.

“Does the president acknowledge this little girl as his granddaughter?”

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Jean-Pierre responded swiftly and simply: “I don’t have anything to share from here,” which is nothing new when it comes to questions about Roberts.

Biden aides have been told to publicly declare that the president only has six grandchildren, leaving Navy Joan out, according to The Times report – which was all but confirmed by Jean-Pierre.

When Biden has previously spoken about his grandchildren, he maintains he only has six.

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“I have six grandchildren, and I’m crazy about them,” Biden said at a White House “take your child to work day” event in April, Fox News reported.

“And I speak to them every single day. Not a joke.”

Hunter recently settled his Arkansas child support case with Navy’s mother, Lunden Alexis Roberts, after a years-long paternity dispute.

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He initially denied meeting Roberts but texts from his laptop revealed she was on the payroll of his consulting firm while pregnant with their daughter.

A paternity test performed in 2019 confirmed Roberts’ claims that Hunter was indeed the father.

Hunter was seeking to reduce the monthly $20,000 payments, though that information was redacted.

Roberts, meanwhile, dropped her bid to change the girl’s last name to “Biden,” according to the court filing.

Hunter “has never seen or contacted” Navy, while the president and First Lady Jill Biden “remain estranged” from her, Roberts claimed in court documents in April, according to CNN.

Biden’s other grandchildren are Naomi, 29, Finnegan, 22, and Maisy, 21, Hunter’s daughters with ex-wife Kathleen Buhle; Natalie, 18, and Robert, 16, the children of his late son, Beau Biden and wife Hallie; and three-year-old Beau, Hunter’s son with current wife Melissa Cohen.

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