White House, Secret Service push back on Hunter Biden gun report
By Jordan Williams - 03/25/21 04:07 PM EDT
The White House and Secret Service are pushing back on a report alleging that the Secret Service got involved in a 2018 gun incident involving his son, Hunter Biden.
The pushback comes after Politico reported on Thursday that Secret Service agents intervened after Hallie Biden, the widow of Hunter Biden’s brother Beau, who Hunter Biden was dating at the time, threw his .38 revolver in a trash can behind a grocery store.
The Secret Service said in a statement to The Hill that it had “no involvement in this incident.â€
A White House official also told The Hill that President Biden had no knowledge or involvement of the incident.
“President Biden did not have any knowledge of, or involvement in, the Secret Service’s alleged role in this incident, and neither he nor any family member was a protectee at that time,†the official said.
The alleged incident occurred in October 2018, when Biden no longer had Secret Service protection. Biden wouldn’t get protection again until he became the Democratic nominee for president in 2020.
The Secret Service didn’t answer questions from Politico on whether it was informally involved with Biden’s security in between that time.
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