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.
