The White House met with Hunter Biden’s legal team just days before he defied a congressional subpoena, raising serious questions about coordination between the two camps, critics said.
The confab between Hunter Biden’s white-shoe attorney Abbe Lowell and Anthony Bernal, a top aide to First Lady Jill Biden, happened at 6 p.m. on Dec. 11, 2023, in the East Wing, according to White House visitor logs.
The logs also show Lowell met with President Biden, though it was likely in the context of a White House Hanukkah reception held on the same day.
The Bernal-Lowell tête-à-tête took place just two days before Hunter Biden defied a House subpoena for a transcribed interview and caused a small frenzy at the Capitol by asserting his innocence at an impromptu press conference.
Biden Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre later admitted that President Biden had been “familiar” with what his son planned to say.
Hunter Biden ultimately came clean to House investigators two months later.
A month before his meeting with Lowell, Bernal was also subpoenaed by the House Oversight Committee as part of their investigation into President Biden’s mishandling of classified documents.
The committee identified Bernal as someone who accessed classified material at the Penn Biden Center before they were officially discovered there in November 2022.
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