House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner is demanding answers from the White House about whether Hunter Biden is privy to classified briefings, as the first son reappeared this week at the Executive Mansion to revive his father’s flailing re-election campaign.
“White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has confirmed that Hunter Biden is attending official White House meetings involving the President and his staff,” Turner (R-Ohio) wrote Wednesday to White House chief of staff Jeff Zients.
“An immediate response is requested, please notify the Committee of the official meetings Hunter Biden is participating in, and if classified information is being disclosed,” he pressed.
Hunter, 54, has been joining White House meetings since his father’s return on Monday from a first family retreat at Camp David, with one source telling The Post on Tuesday that the first son is mistrustful of West Wing aides.
Former White House chief of staff Ron Klain, senior adviser Anita Dunn and personal attorney Bob Bauer were blamed by first family members for fatiguing President Biden, 81, during debate preparations the week before at his country residence.
Hunter believes his dad remains “scrappy and in command of the facts”— despite a faltering debate performance against former President Donald Trump, 77, last Thursday, according to a New York Times report.
The first son’s presence in the West Wing has alarmed security personnel for years.
The Secret Service internally communicates the movements of protectees, and agents were stunned to hear during Biden’s first year in office that Hunter was en route to the highly secure Situation Room.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre described his appearance as part of preparation for a speech the president would give Monday night on the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling — but Hunter has stayed on through Wednesday.
Last July, he returned to the White House from another Camp David visit for Independence Day festivities just hours after cocaine was found in a holding area outside the Situation Room.
Hunter reportedly had been staying at the Executive Mansion in the weeks before he copped to a probation-only plea deal for tax and gun crimes in June, which later imploded, and looped his dad in on plans to flout a congressional subpoena to answer questions about his lucrative business dealings abroad.
The president’s son became a convicted felon on June 11 following a federal trial that found him guilty of three gun charges — and faces a further potential felony verdict this September for evading $1.4 million in tax payments.
Hunter was also interviewed during special counsel Robert Hur’s investigation into his dad last year, which found that the elder Biden “willfully retained and disclosed classified materials” — but the prosecutor declined to bring charges.
As vice president, Joe Biden traded emails from a pseudonymous account with his son and various business associates — and met and spoke by phone with several foreign benefactors from Mexico, Kazakhstan, Russia, Ukraine and China.
Those interactions — and Hunter’s proximity to classified material that was housed at Biden’s Delaware mansion — have formed the substance of House Republicans’ impeachment inquiry into the president, which is ongoing.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
