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White House visitor logs reveal that Hunter Biden's attorney, Abbe Lowell, and a top aide for First Lady Jill Biden attended a White House event two days before Hunter defied a congressional subpoena. The timing of these visits raises questions about potential coordination between the White House and Hunter's legal team.

Key Details

• Abbe Lowell, Hunter Biden's attorney, and a top aide for First Lady Jill Biden attended a White House event on December 11, 2023.
• The event occurred two days before Hunter Biden defied a congressional subpoena to appear before Congress.
• The White House claims the log entry was related to a Hanukkah reception and that no discussions about Hunter's legal issues took place.

Diving Deeper

According to the New York Post, the White House claimed the log entry related to a White House Hanukkah reception and that nobody discussed Hunter's legal woes, Levine reported. The event occurred days before Hunter traveled to Capitol Hill to hold a public relations press conference stunt in which he claimed he was a victim of a House impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre admitted Joe Biden was "familiar" with what Hunter would tell reporters — that he would not show up for his subpoenaed interview with investigators. Levine reported on the history and influence of Jill Biden's aide: The committee identified Bernal as someone who accessed classified material at the Penn Biden Center before they were officially discovered there 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. The aide — who has been with Jill Biden since 2008 — is widely considered untouchable because of his closeness to the first family.

"The White House must provide the public with information about the contents of this meeting in order to provide transparency to the American people," House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) told the Post. "We've called on the White House to provide information about whether President Biden sought to influence or obstruct our investigation by preventing, discouraging, or dissuading his son from complying with the subpoenas for a deposition as part of the House of Representatives' impeachment inquiry, but the White House has refused to provide any information."