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NY Times columnist shames Biden over Hunter’s love child: ‘It’s seven grandkids, Mr. President’

July 9, 2023 | | Print Article

Not even the New York Times is defending President Joe Biden’s refusal to acknowledge his four-year-old granddaughter, a shameful case of neglect from a man whose presenting himself as a loving grandpa is as phony as the big lie that he would be a unifier during his 2020 White House campaign.

In a brutal column penned by one of the paper’s top writers, Maureen Dowd shames the octogenarian Democrat for the “cold shoulder — and heart” that he’s shown to poor little Navy Joan Roberts, the love child born out of wedlock as the result of a fling between his reprobate son Hunter and former stripper Lunden Roberts.

Dowd takes the elder Biden to task by writing about her Republican sister, a woman who was so impressed by then-vice President Biden’s “gregarious Irish charm” that she “sent out a Christmas card one year with a picture of herself cheek to cheek with Biden — and some of her Republican friends stopped speaking to her.”

“So I was surprised recently when I discovered my sister writing a letter to President Biden, a plea that she had started in the middle of the night, after mulling over the matter for quite a while,” wrote Dowd, relating a letter from sister Peggy to the wretch-in-chief.

“I watched as you told the nation that you had six grandchildren and you loved each one of them,” Dowd related her sister’s letter. “I believe that. What I cannot believe and what I find unconscionable is that you refuse to admit or accept the fact that there is a beautiful little 4-year-old girl living in Arkansas by the name of Navy Joan who is your seventh grandchild.”

“As she grows up, knowing that her father and paternal grandparents wanted nothing to do with her,” She wrote in Peggy’s words,  “she will probably be able to see a video or two showing her half sister Naomi getting married on the South Lawn and you watching the fireworks on the balcony with little Beau. And if she misses that, there will be plenty of schoolmates to remind her that she wasn’t wanted. Kids can be mean that way.”

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“Mr. President, many years ago, you lost your daughter in a horrendous car accident,” she wrote of sister Peggy’s letter. “I know you still carry that pain with you every day because I have watched your face when you speak about her. Please do not throw away your granddaughter.”

Whether the letter for Peggy was real or just a rhetorical device is of little importance because the column packed an emotional punch, coming a week after Dowd’s paper broke the story that Biden’s aides have been told that “The Big Guy” only has six grandchildren as his team preps for his reelection by refusing to acknowledge Navy Joan’s existence.

“I have six grandchildren. And I’m crazy about them. And I speak to them every single day,” Biden told reporters earlier this year. “They’re crazy about me because I pay so much attention to them.”

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Twitter users reacted to Dowd’s column, with one making the astute observation that its nothing new for Biden, “he’s been a scumbag his entire life.”

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“My sister and I often disagree about politics, but this is not a political issue to us. It’s a human one. Joe Biden’s mantra has always been that ‘the absolute most important thing is your family.’ It is the heart of his political narrative. Empathy, born of family tragedies, has been his stock in trade. Callously scarring Navy’s life, just as it gets started, undercuts that,” Dowd wrote.

“The president’s cold shoulder — and heart — is counter to every message he has sent for decades, and it’s out of sync with the America he wants to continue to lead,” she concluded.

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