Biden aide says president-elect will not discuss son Hunter with AG candidates

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:

• Press secretary of incoming Biden administration, Jen Psaki, said during an interview on Fox News at the former vice president will not bring up issues concerning his son, Hunter, to attorney general candidates.
• The Post first publicized in October that Hunter introduced the president-elect to a leading executive of Burisma, an energy firm in Ukraine.
• Trump, meanwhile, denied that he had something to do about Hunter’s investigation.

On Sunday, White House press secretary- to-be Jen Psaki told anchor Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday” that 46th president-elect Joe Biden will not converse with attorney general runners about his son, Hunter Biden, over a federal investigation. She added that the same would be applied even to a future attorney general.

Wallace then requested Psaki’s comment about the current probe of Delaware US attorney into the tax transactions of Hunter Biden and if the incoming president will let it continue. She said the investigation would be entirely up to the attorney general in Biden’s administration on how to proceed with the matter.

Psaki added that Biden wanted to make sure the selection process work as required and the Justice Department must be run independently by the attorney general.

In October, the Post was the first outlet that reported Hunter introduced the former vice president to a Burisma top executive. The Ukrainian company deals with energy and Hunter happened to serve on the firm’s board.

The report was confined in email messages uncovered on a laptop supposedly owned by Hunter Biden and forgotten at a repair center in Wilmington, Delaware.

The Post also publicized Hunter’s profitable business transactions in China.

According to reports, President Donald Trump is considering assigning a special counsel to look further into the taxes and business dealings of Hunter abroad.

Trump lambasted Bill Barr, who filed his resignation last week as attorney general, for being easy on the investigation against Hunter and for not warning Congress about it during the last election that the inquiry had been running for a couple of years.

Trump clarified, however, that he was not involved in the possible investigation against Hunter Biden, saying via Twitter last week that he finds the probe sad to witness.

Source: New York Post