As Twitchy reported, President Joe Biden for the very first time acknowledged the existence of his seventh grandchild in a Friday night news dump to People Magazine right before his ten-day vacation. We did note that Biden verbally acknowledged that he has seven grandchildren in a podcast, and says he calls or texts them every day (except for Navy, Hunter's daughter with Lunden Roberts).
NBC News has finally picked up on the story and notes that the thing keeping Joe and Jill from recognizing their four-year-old granddaughter wasn't the child support battle but rather getting the "green light" from Hunter to go public.
This is the kind of situation where a parent tells their adult son to grow up, not ask for their permission. https://t.co/Lx1MtYwfQA pic.twitter.com/2WkKBoq0CW
— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) August 2, 2023
Joe Biden now supposedly wants to meet the granddaughter whose existence he refused to acknowledge until last week. https://t.co/Lx1MtYwfQA pic.twitter.com/YwLJUAZpgz
— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) August 2, 2023
Now he wants to meet her? As far as we know, her father has never even met her. His only interactions with her mother are court proceedings.
Peter Nicholas, Carol E. Lee, Monica Alba, and Mike Memoli report for NBC News:
Publicly claiming Navy Joan as a member of his family may offer Biden a measure of peace. Politically, however, it also serves to blunt a GOP line of attack.
Republicans have shown that they plan to target Biden's messy situation, betting the saga will engender so much distaste in voters that it will sully his image as someone who rededicated himself to family after losing his first wife and a young daughter in a car accident a half century ago. In doing so, they could chip away at a central part of his narrative as he runs for re-election.
Biden largely followed his son's guidance in keeping quiet as the legal case unfolded, sources familiar with the matter said. With the dispute reaching a settlement, the president wanted to speak out and his son agreed he should do so, a source said, in part because, he told his father, it would help negate a Republican line of attack.
So it took four reporters to come up with "Republicans pounce." Republicans like Maureen Down whose column shamed Biden into saying something at last. And it took four reporters not to mention that Biden lied and claimed the driver was drunk.
Seriously, Joe Biden is a garbage person for refusing to admit Navy Joan exists and continually telling the press he has six grandchildren.
Dudes taken less questions from the media than any politician in a hundred years, but at least he recognized his grandchild. 😂😂😂
— DC Corruption, LLC (@Corruption_Ink) August 2, 2023
Come on, it was disastrous in the polls. He should’ve done this when it was revealed she was his granddaughter. He’s had plenty of time, this shouldn’t be political.
— Cheryl (@sherrilynn0420) August 2, 2023
The DNA tests came back in 2019.
Hunter is not just an adult; he's passed middle age. People seem to ignore this.
— Thankful4USA (@Thankful4Usa) August 2, 2023
Wait @POTUS had to ask his son if it was ok to recognize his own granddaughter. Huh I would backhand my adult son for abandoning the little girl especially when Paternity came back! Is Hunter actually running the country?? OMG!!
— Gerard Robson (@GerardRobson) August 2, 2023
A good father doesn't give his crackhead son money for prostitutes and cushy no show jobs on Ukrainian oil companies. Good fathers threaten to cut their son off unless he goes to rehab.
— The Only Gary Johnson Stan (@colorblindk1d) August 2, 2023
Remember, this whole ugly incident is just the story of a father's love for his son.
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