Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday refused to comment on accusations that Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, may have been engaged in a pay-for-play scheme with foreign oligarchs in Ukraine and China.
“I’m not answering those questions,” Pelosi responded to the Washington Examiner’s Kerry Picket, who was the only reporter to raise the matter at the speaker’s weekly press conference.
Pelosi said questions on Thursday were limited to negotiations to secure a bipartisan deal on a new round of coronavirus aid.
“We’re talking about the coronavirus,” Pelosi said. “I don’t have all day for questions. That’s what we are talking about now.”
Pelosi does not typically limit subject matter at her press conferences.
Her press conference came hours after Tony Bobulinski, listed as one of the recipients of an email detailing an apparent business deal between a Chinese company and Hunter Biden, said that the message is “genuine” and that “the big guy” mentioned is a reference to Hunter’s father.
The email he was referring to is from James Gilliar, a member of the J2CR international consulting firm, to Hunter Biden and others, dated May 13, 2017, and it discusses “expectations” of an as-of-yet-unclear deal while claiming that “we have discussed and agreed the following renumeration packages.” As well as discussing Hunter, it asks about “10 held by H for the big guy”.
Joe Biden has not directly denied the legitimacy of emails found on Hunter Biden’s alleged abandoned laptops, which are now in possession of The FBI and reportedly the subject of a money laundering investigation.
Joe Biden, in an interview with WISN 12 News in Milwaukee, called the allegations “garbage,” and “a last-ditch effort in this desperate campaign to smear me and my family.”…
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