The Biden White House has consistently omitted Hunter Biden, the president’s embattled son, from flight logs for Marine One.
Fox News’s Peter Doocy was the first to notice that Hunter was missing from logs after seeing him hopping off the chopper while watching the First Family’s return from a Delaware vacation.
Doocy said Hunter did not appear on the official flight log given to the White House press corps.
Meanwhile, the House GOP official account asked whether other visitor logs were being scrubbed of Hunter Biden’s appearance.
“Fox News reports that Hunter Biden is currently at the White House after being spotted exiting Marine One,” the House GOP account wrote.
“He was not on the White House’s passenger manifest. What other manifests and visitor logs has Hunter Biden been left off of?”
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— House Republicans (@HouseGOP) December 19, 2023
Fox News reports that Hunter Biden is currently at the White House after being spotted exiting Marine One.
He was not on the White House's passenger manifest.
What other manifests and visitor logs has Hunter Biden been left off of? pic.twitter.com/lnBnxdEZ9g
Following the discovery, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked whether Biden officials would disclose Hunter Biden’s travel plans with his father.
“That’s something that we’ve never done,” Jean-Pierre responded.
“This is the family. The family gets to travel with the president, and that’s been the case with every other president, and so it’s not something that we have done or we would be doing moving forward.”
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"Will the White House announce Hunter Biden's presence on Marine One moving forward?"
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) December 19, 2023
KARINE JEAN-PIERRE: No pic.twitter.com/FMK5VFyINU
Other critics noted that the White House’s attempt to hide Hunter from flight logs is not good optics, given Hunter’s looming contempt of Congress charges and other federal cases against him.
Fox News White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich said:
“The White House may not have helped that the president is keeping far away from Hunter’s local woes.’
“So, Hunter is apparently here at the White House after defying a Congressional subpoena while being indicted and facing a maximum of 17 years behind bars on financial crimes plus another 25 on the gun charges that he is facing,” she added.
It’s also worth noting that the Biden White House declared itself as “the most transparent administration in history” despite keeping covering up Hunter Biden’s White House rendezvous.
Other media reports of Hunter appearing at the White House through February 2023 included:
The annual egg roll
Medal of Freedom ceremony
France State Dinner on the South Lawn
Christmas tree lighting
The president’s daughter’s wedding
Hunter was excluded from official visitor logs from all those events mentioned above.
A spokesperson for the administration highlighted its stated policy about guest logs:
“The White House will not release access records related to purely personal guests of the First and Second Families (i.e., visits that do not involve any official or political business),” said the spox.
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