{"id":1445,"date":"2023-02-20T11:59:08","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T16:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=1445"},"modified":"2023-02-20T11:59:38","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T16:59:38","slug":"biden-tells-press-give-me-a-break-stomps-off-when-pressed-on-familys-china-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=1445","title":{"rendered":"Biden Tells Press \u2018Give Me a Break,\u2019 Stomps Off When Pressed on Family\u2019s China Business"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/share\/url?url=https%3A%2F%2Fresistthemainstream.com%2Fwatch-biden-storms-out-when-pressed-on-familys-china-business%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fresistthemainstream.com%2Fwatch-biden-storms-out-when-pressed-on-familys-china-business%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fresistthemainstream.com%2Fwatch-biden-storms-out-when-pressed-on-familys-china-business%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/gettr.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fresistthemainstream.com%2Fwatch-biden-storms-out-when-pressed-on-familys-china-business%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/gab.com\/compose?url=https%3A%2F%2Fresistthemainstream.com%2Fwatch-biden-storms-out-when-pressed-on-familys-china-business%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><a href=\"mailto:?subject=Watch%3A%20Biden%20Storms%20Out%20When%20Pressed%20on%20Family%E2%80%99s%20China%20Business&amp;body=https%3A%2F%2Fresistthemainstream.com%2Fwatch-biden-storms-out-when-pressed-on-familys-china-business%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20370%20247'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/resistthemainstream.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/biden-5-750x394.jpg\" alt=\"Biden Tells Press \u2018Give Me a Break,\u2019 Stomps Off When Pressed on Family\u2019s China Business\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/resistthemainstream.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/biden-5-750x394.jpg\" alt=\"Biden Tells Press \u2018Give Me a Break,\u2019 Stomps Off When Pressed on Family\u2019s China Business\"\/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/share\/url?url=https%3A%2F%2Fresistthemainstream.com%2Fwatch-biden-storms-out-when-pressed-on-familys-china-business%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fresistthemainstream.com%2Fwatch-biden-storms-out-when-pressed-on-familys-china-business%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fresistthemainstream.com%2Fwatch-biden-storms-out-when-pressed-on-familys-china-business%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/gettr.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fresistthemainstream.com%2Fwatch-biden-storms-out-when-pressed-on-familys-china-business%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/gab.com\/compose?url=https%3A%2F%2Fresistthemainstream.com%2Fwatch-biden-storms-out-when-pressed-on-familys-china-business%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><a href=\"mailto:?subject=Watch%3A%20Biden%20Storms%20Out%20When%20Pressed%20on%20Family%E2%80%99s%20China%20Business&amp;body=https%3A%2F%2Fresistthemainstream.com%2Fwatch-biden-storms-out-when-pressed-on-familys-china-business%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Joe Biden dodged questions about his ability to effectively deal with China because of alleged business relationships with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIs this deal with China compromised by your family\u2019s business relationships in China, President Biden?\u201d a reporter&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2023\/02\/16\/remarks-by-president-biden-on-the-united-states-response-to-recent-aerial-objects\/\" target=\"_blank\">asked<\/a>&nbsp;during Thursday\u2019s White House press briefing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING \ud83d\udea8: President Joe Biden walks off stage after a Reporter: says \u201cAre you compromised by your family\u2019s business relations in China?\u201d<br><br>Biden: \u201cGive me a break, man! You cut me off\u201d. Then he walks off stage with out answering any questions <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/x0trYsTxBB\">pic.twitter.com\/x0trYsTxBB<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Officer Lew (@officer_Lew) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/officer_Lew\/status\/1626307477754023937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 16, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The New York Post further&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/02\/16\/biden-says-press-impolite-stomps-off-over-familys-china-biz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>President Biden stormed out of a press availability Thursday afternoon when asked if his ability to deal with China was \u201ccompromised\u201d by his family\u2019s business interests \u2014 complaining journalists were not being \u201cpolite\u201d and telling them to \u201cgive me a break\u201d before walking away.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Republicans say Biden can\u2019t properly&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/resistthemainstream.com\/nyt-publishes-surprising-op-ed-on-j-k-rowling-amid-accusations-of-anti-trans-bias\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">confront<\/a>&nbsp;China on issues&nbsp;ranging from fentanyl&nbsp;and&nbsp;COVID-19 origins&nbsp;to a&nbsp;surveillance balloon&nbsp;that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/02\/13\/balloon-mysteries-team-biden-needs-to-explain-what-in-hell-is-going-on\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">traversed<\/a>&nbsp;US airspace this month because of his family\u2019s financial links to Chinese state entities.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cIs your ability to deal with China compromised by your family\u2019s business relationships in China, President Biden?\u201d a reporter for The Post asked following a seven-minute address on the Chinese balloon and the subsequent shoot-down of three yet-to-be-identified objects.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>At least four other reporters shouted questions at the president, who had not faced the press for nearly six days, but Biden chose to answer only The Post\u2019s query.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cGive me a break, man,\u201d Biden said, with a dismissive laugh.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Two American TV journalists and reporters for Polish and Japanese outlets proceeded to pepper Biden with a cacophony of competing questions, with The Post belatedly adding, \u201cDoes your son still co-own a company with Chinese government entities?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Biden said, with an apparent disdainful hand gesture toward The Post\u2019s reporter: \u201cYou can come to my office and ask a question when you have more polite people with you.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>It\u2019s common practice for reporters to loudly shout competing questions at the president, but journalists standing near NBC News\u2019 Peter Alexander, who was about 25 feet from The Post, said it appeared Biden was trying to call on him.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Biden&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/white-house\/biden-speech-spy-balloon-rcna71050\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">granted<\/a>&nbsp;an exclusive interview to Alexander&nbsp;moments after the chaotic end of the event.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cI think the last thing that [Chinese President] Xi [Jinping] wants is to fundamentally rip the relationship with the United States and with me,\u201d Biden told Alexander, addressing how the spy balloon impacts foreign relations.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The Biden family has had two major relationships with Chinese state-linked companies. In each instance, President Biden allegedly was directly involved.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cWhen you look at the Biden balloon that came across the country for a week, and you look at how he changed from calling China an adversary and confronting China, as President Trump did, to calling China a partner and a competitor \u2014 how much has that been influenced by the Biden family\u2019s corrupt business deals?\u201d asked Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.) of The Post last week.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Business records suggest first son Hunter Biden still owns a 10% stake in&nbsp;Chinese state-backed&nbsp;BHR&nbsp;Partners, which says it&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/03\/18\/jen-psaki-brushes-off-bidens-conflicts-of-interest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">manages&nbsp;<\/a>$2.1 billion&nbsp;in assets, despite his father\u2019s insistence there would be&nbsp;no family-business-related conflicts&nbsp;of interest during his presidency.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Hunter co-founded&nbsp;BHR&nbsp;Partners&nbsp;in 2013 within weeks of joining then-Vice President Biden aboard Air Force Two on an official trip to Beijing,&nbsp;according to&nbsp;the Wall Street Journal.&nbsp;Hunter&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/what-we-know-about-hunter-bidens-dealings-in-china-11570181403\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">introduced<\/a>&nbsp;his dad to&nbsp;BHR&nbsp;CEO Jonathan Li and Joe Biden later&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/04\/06\/biden-wrote-college-rec-for-son-of-chinese-exec-tied-to-hunter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote&nbsp;<\/a>college recommendation letters&nbsp;for Li\u2019s children.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Hunter&nbsp;Biden\u2019s attorney Chris Clark said in late 2021 that the&nbsp;BHR&nbsp;stake had been divested, but neither he&nbsp;nor the White House&nbsp;has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/12\/06\/psaki-declines-basic-transparency-about-hunter-biden-chinese-divestment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">provided<\/a>&nbsp;further information on the supposed transaction.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Joe Biden also&nbsp;allegedly was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/10\/15\/emails-reveal-how-hunter-biden-tried-to-cash-in-big-with-chinese-firm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">involved&nbsp;<\/a>in Hunter and first brother James Biden\u2019s venture with&nbsp;CEFC&nbsp;China&nbsp;Energy, a firm reputed to be a cog in Beijing\u2019s \u201cBelt and Road\u201d foreign influence campaign. A May 13, 2017, email recovered from Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/10\/22\/hunter-ex-partner-tony-bobulinski-calls-joe-biden-a-liar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said&nbsp;<\/a>the \u201cbig&nbsp;guy\u201d&nbsp;would get 10% of that deal. Former Hunter Biden business&nbsp;partner&nbsp;Tony Bobulinski says he discussed the deal with Joe Biden and both Bobulinski and another former Hunter Biden&nbsp;partner, James Gilliar, identified Joe Biden as the \u201cbig guy.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Hunter and Jim Biden&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/30\/hunter-biden-china-laptop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">earned&nbsp;<\/a>$4.8&nbsp;million&nbsp;from&nbsp;CEFC&nbsp;China&nbsp;Energy&nbsp;in 2017 and 2018, according to the Washington Post\u2019s review of&nbsp;Hunter&nbsp;Biden&nbsp;laptop&nbsp;documents. An&nbsp;October 2017 email&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11646417\/Joe-Biden-named-2017-email-discussing-multi-million-dollar-gas-deal-China.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">identifies<\/a>&nbsp;Joe Biden as a participant in a call about&nbsp;CEFC\u2019s attempt to purchase US natural gas.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Biden has taken heat from Republicans for not pushing harder to determine the origins of COVID-19, which killed more than 1 million Americans, and for not doing more to discourage China from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/02\/10\/biden-fumbles-fentanyl-death-data-again-after-sotu-hecklers-blame-him-china\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">exporting<\/a>&nbsp;illegal fentanyl, which killed nearly 200,000 Americans in 2018-2021 alone.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>US spy agencies&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/08\/27\/covid-origins-report-says-its-plausible-virus-leaked-from-wuhan-lab\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">assessed<\/a>&nbsp;in August 2021 that a lab leak in Wuhan, China, was&nbsp;one of two \u201cplausible\u201d explanations&nbsp;for the pandemic, but Biden has said very little about the matter since then. He regularly&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/01\/09\/biden-botches-fentanyl-death-statistics-when-raising-issue-with-mexican-prez\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">misstates<\/a>&nbsp;the fentanyl death toll, meanwhile, and rarely mentions it\u2019s sourced largely from China.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Biden\u2019s event Thursday was also&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/07\/05\/white-house-says-ending-reporter-prescreening-for-biden-events-is-priority\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">marred<\/a>&nbsp;by a return to&nbsp;aggressive pre-screening of reporters.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>At 1:04 p.m. reporters were informed that Biden would be speaking at 2 p.m. in the South Court Auditorium of the White House-adjacent Eisenhower Executive Office Building, which&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/10\/07\/president-biden-mocked-over-fake-white-house-set\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">houses<\/a>&nbsp;the set of a&nbsp;\u201cfake\u201d White House. A link was provided for journalists interested in attending.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Reporters were told to gather for those remarks at 1:50 p.m., but White House aides didn\u2019t inform reporters of who was allowed to attend, so almost all reporters entered the venue and took their seats before the presidential podium.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>White House aides then asked journalists to check their emails to see if they were issued a credential to attend or not.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Several journalists, including from The Post, received emails at 1:52 p.m. \u2014 after reporters were already gathered \u2014 saying, \u201cDue to space limitations, we are unable to accommodate your credential request for POTUS remarks.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Some reporters left the room when asked, but The Post\u2019s reporter pointed to about two dozen empty theater-style seats as evidence that there was no \u201cspace limitation\u201d and a press aide relented.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The White House press corps has&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/resistthemainstream.com\/watch-rand-paul-presses-doctor-on-vaccine-mandates-asks-why-europe-gives-more-freedoms-than-america\/\" target=\"_blank\">pushed<\/a>&nbsp;back on the Biden administration\u2019s&nbsp;mysterious pre-screening of reporters&nbsp;allowed into large presidential events. Those restrictions began during the COVID-19 pandemic, but have lingered long after masking, testing and social distancing rules ended \u2014 in what critics perceive as an unsubtle way of shaping the variety of questions presented to the president.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/resistthemainstream.com\/watch-biden-storms-out-when-pressed-on-familys-china-business\/\">https:\/\/resistthemainstream.com\/watch-biden-storms-out-when-pressed-on-familys-china-business\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden dodged questions about his ability to effectively deal with China because of alleged business relationships with them. \u201cIs this deal with China compromised by your family\u2019s business relationships in China, President Biden?\u201d a reporter&nbsp;asked&nbsp;during Thursday\u2019s White House press briefing. The New York Post further&nbsp;reported: President Biden stormed out of a press availability Thursday afternoon when asked if his ability to deal with China was \u201ccompromised\u201d by his family\u2019s business interests \u2014 complaining journalists were not being \u201cpolite\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-president-biden"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1445"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1447,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445\/revisions\/1447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}