The White House recently had a meeting with Hunter Biden’s legal team. It came just days before he defied a congressional subpoena and raised serious questions about coordination between the two camps as critics said via NY Post.
It has been noted that 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.
It has come to light that 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 transpired just a couple of 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.
Bernal was subpoenaed by the House Oversight Committee a month before he met with Lowell. The committee was investigating President Biden’s alleged mishandling of classified documents and identified Bernal as someone who had accessed classified material at the Penn Biden Center. The material was discovered in November 2022.
Bernal, informally known as First Lady Jill Biden’s “work husband,” has become an infamous figure in the White House, where allegations of bullying and sexual harassment have circulated for years.
