A majority of Americans aren’t buying the White House’s denial that President Joe Biden was not involved in his son, Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings, according to a Monday Harvard CAPS Harris poll.
Sixty percent of Americans believe that Biden “helped and participated” in Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings, according to a Monday Harvard CAPS Harris poll. On the opposite side, 40% of Americans say Biden did not participate in the deals. (RELATED: House Oversight Investigating Whether Joe Biden Held Classified Documents Related To Hunter Biden’s Business Dealings)
“While the news has pivoted to other topics, voters remain concerned about Hunter Biden and how involved President Biden was in his business,” Harris Poll Chairman Mark Penn told the Hill. “Hunter received a high unfavorable rating – worse than the president – and most believe that the president at least knew about his dealings.”
Americans gave Hunter Biden a 55% unfavorability rating, the highest out of a list of various politicians including former President Donald Trump, Joe Biden and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the poll showed. Joe Biden was given a 49% unfavorability rating while Trump was given a 44% unfavorability rating.
Hunter Biden, son of U.S. President Joe Biden, departs the J. Caleb Boggs Federal Building and United States Courthouse on July 26, 2023 in Wilmington, Delaware. (Photo by Mark Makela/Getty Images)
The president himself has denied having any involvement in his son’s foreign business dealings. The White House has repeatedly dismissed troves of documents presented by the House Oversight Committee as a part of a probe into President Biden. The latest released documents include bank records between the Biden family and its Chinese business associates showing that the president took $40,000 of Chinese money in Sept. 2017. (RELATED: Evidence Keeps Piling Up Contradicting Joe Biden’s Claim He Never Discussed Business With Hunter)
“Comer’s lies and conspiracy theories are getting more desperate by the day,” White House spokesman for oversight and investigations Ian Sams wrote in an October tweet. “Perhaps that’s why yesterday he admitted his probe was going ‘downhill.’”