Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre shut down a question Wednesday on whether President Joe Biden would now acknowledge four-year-old Navy Joan as his grandchild after son Hunter Biden settled his child support dispute.
DailyMail.com reported Friday that Hunter and Lunden Roberts, 32, came to an agreement on child support after the first son said he would play a role in his out-of-wedlock daughter’s life.
That could open the door to meeting her grandfather, if the president was so inclined.
‘I don’t have anything to share from here,’ Jean-Pierre said at Wednesday’s briefing, quickly moving on to the next reporter.
The pre-school age girl has never met Hunter and the Biden family has refused to count her as part of the family – with only six stockings representing the grandchildren being hung at the White House at Christmastime.
Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre (left) shut down a question Wednesday on whether President Joe Biden would now acknowledge Navy Joan (center) as his grandchild after son Hunter Biden settled his child support dispute with mom Lunden Roberts (right)
None of the Bidens have met four-year-old Navy Joan, including (from left) President Joe Biden, first lady Jill Biden, Hunter Biden and baby Beau Biden, who were photographed together at Tuesday’s Fourth of July celebration
The New York Times reported Friday that aides have been told that Bidens have six grandchildren – not seven – during strategy sessions.
The blonde-haired little girl was conceived around December 2017 while Hunter was still in a relationship with his brother Beau’s widow, Hallie.
In his 2021 memoir, Beautiful Things, Hunter – who was addicted to crack cocaine at the time and spiraling – said he didn’t remember it happening.
‘I had no recollection of our encounter,’ Hunter wrote. ‘That’s how little connection I had with anyone. I was a mess, but a mess I’ve taken responsibility for.’
It was initially reported that the pair met while Roberts was working as a pole dancer at Hunter’s favorite D.C. strip club.
But texts retrieved from his abandoned laptop proved that she was in fact on the payroll at his investment firm, Rosemont Seneca.
As DailyMail.com revealed, Hunter initially vowed to support Roberts ’emotionally, physically and financially.’
Instead, he cruelly ‘ghosted’ her, ignoring her texts and calls, and refusing to acknowledge Navy Joan was his until Roberts sued for child support in 2019 and a court-ordered DNA test proved her claims.
In the ensuing litigation, Hunter claimed he was ‘unemployed and had no monthly income’ despite living in a $12,000-per-month Hollywood rental and driving a Porsche.
But when ordered to produce his financial records he repeatedly failed to do so before agreeing a 2019 settlement that has seen him pay Roberts more than $750,000 to date.
Despite already facing congressional and federal probes into his financial affairs, Hunter unexpectedly reopened the case last September, claiming he had suffered ‘a substantial material change’ in his income.
Roberts refused to buckle and raised the stakes by petitioning the court to officially rename her daughter Navy Joan Biden to ‘benefit from carrying the Biden Family name.’
Her lawyers once more demanded Hunter hand over full details of his finances, from his shady business deals in Ukraine and China, to the names of the mystery art lovers who have paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for his beginner paintings.
This week’s deal ends proceedings, however, without the need for a July trial.
Attorneys for Roberts and Hunter, whose pricey stable of lawyers includes Abbe Lowell – who is said to charge up to $855 per hour – declined to comment.