For her entire life, Navy Joan Roberts has been “she who must not be named.” There is no evidence that her father has ever visited her, let alone held her. Her grandparents repeatedly denied her existence and said that they had only “four granddaughters.” They even gave their dogs stockings at Christmas rather than Navy, who never even bit one let alone a score of Secret Service agents. As even Democrats began to voice their own shock at the cruelty of the First Couple shunning this child, the Bidens finally relented and recognized her existence, but only barely so. They now admit that they have seven grandchildren and five (not four) granddaughters.
Pressed by Fox News, the White House issued this statement:
“Our son Hunter and Navy’s mother, Lunden, are working together to foster a relationship that is in the best interests of their daughter, preserving her privacy as much as possible going forward. This is not a political issue, it’s a family matter. Jill and I only want what is best for all of our grandchildren, including Navy.”
Even for those of us who merely followed this saga from the beginning, the statement was maddening and frankly insulting. It suggested that there was some reason, until now, that prevented the Bidens from acknowledging the existence of their fifth granddaughter. The suggestion was pushed further by CNN, which cited the resolution of “a protracted and bitter court proceeding over child support.” That is false. There was no legal, or even tactical, reason for the refusal of the First Couple to acknowledge Navy for four years.
Navy and her mother sought that recognition and the Bidens refused. How was that in the “best interests” of this child? Were they fostering a relationship when they gave the German Shepherds stockings at Christmas but not their grandchild?
Moreover, Hunter has not been “working together” with Lunden for the best interests of his daughter. He has been a callous cad throughout this process, consistently putting his own interests ahead of his child.
Hunter refused to admit that he was Navy’s father for years until forced to accept the results of a court-ordered DNA test. He then fought child support and even her use of the name Biden. He was threatened repeatedly with contempt of court over his obstruction in the litigation in Arkansas. The statement that he has been working together with Lunden is insulting to anyone who has followed these court proceedings, let alone their granddaughter.
In June, Hunter settled the Arkansas child support case on the condition that Lunden agreed to withdraw her request to change their child’s last name to “Biden.”
Washington is a hard town. I have lived and worked here for decades and I am still amazed by the cold calculations of many in this city. Long-standing values and associations are routinely jettisoned for personal advantage. Here the moral strictures of the rest of the nation are flipped; vice is a virtue and integrity is a weakness.
Yet, even in this place of utter personal corruption, the Bidens shocked the local population. It was not their millions in influence peddling. The Bidens are standouts but hardly unique in that form of corruption. It is not the President’s obvious lies about his knowledge and ties to his son’s foreign dealings. Truth is as relative in Washington as loyalty in this city. However, few have the stomach for how the Bidens treated this little girl. The Bidens spent more time fretting over the “pressure” of the White House on Major and Commander than they did the emotional impact on a four-year-old child who was prevented from even calling herself a Biden.
So what changed after four years to compel this passing recognition in a press statement? It was not the litigation. There was never any legal reason not to recognize their granddaughter since it was confirmed by DNA and court order. It was not any sudden request of the child or her mother. They have been asking for years for such recognition.
It was more likely the disgust expressed even by Democrats that this is simply wrong. The President is about to head out on the campaign trail and had no answer to that objection. In other words, for the First Couple, it is a political not a family matter. If it were the latter, they would have done the decent thing years ago.
Of course, the President cannot go into his loving account of how his granddaughter is “a talker” and playful (like his German Shepherd) because he has never bothered to meet her.
That is now a matter for this little girl to contemplate as she gets older. However, whatever the impetus of the sudden recognition of Navy’s existence, it was not any legal cause. The First Couple was free to do the decent thing at any time over the last four years. They simply did not find it in their “best interest” to do so.
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They did it in a Friday evening news dump. Classy.
They even gave their dogs stockings at Christmas rather than Navy, who never even bit one . . . .
Wait, she’s never bit a stocking?
Or she never bit a dog.
This has been the task of clinical psychologists (not lawyers) even now the child might be damaged, or be damaged to the core via abandonment-rejection issues she will have to deal with as an adult. The Biden tribe offers nothing for their offspring except controlling or enabling parents…let’s face it it’s all they know prayers are up for Navy
Bidens are the WORST kind of people…Every one of them!
But don’t worry the Republicans will CONTINUE to GIVE trillions to criminals Democrats
Vivek
“It’s the managerial class vs. the everyday citizen. Aristocracy vs sovereignty. Self-governance vs monarchy. It’s a 1776”
GOP Presidential candidate Will Hurd last night: “Donald Trump is running to stay out of prison.”
And JT continues his silence on the superseding indictment against Trump that now includes conspiracy to destroy evidence.
so you support THROWING Hillary in JAIL..WHO ACTUALLY destroyed evidence. Trump can do what he WANTS with the VIDEOS at his HOME!
He can’t do what he wants with subpoenaed evidence. Nice to know that you support the rule of law.
That is precisely what Clinton did – her emails were under subpoena and she destroyed many thousands of them, saying they weren’t relevant.
I will be quite happy for the DOJ to apply the same standards here.
For your reading pleasure: https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/703-ways-trump-s-mar-a-lago-conduct-bears-no-resemblance-to-hillary-clinton-s-emails
From a bunch of the most thoroughly corrupt – not to mention Constitutionally illiterate – attorneys in history? No thanks – I wouldn’t so pollute my soul.
There’s no proof he destroyed anything. Or proof he asked.
There’s testimony under oath that he asked, and there may well be evidence of deleted videos. Try again.
Just so. The flip on Navy followed Hunter’s and his legal team’s face plant in court–where a corrupt deal with covert clauses no honest prosecutor could have agreed to, could not withstand the barest scrutiny from a judge. Little Navy is called up in a crass and calculated attempt to shift attention and restore character to a family that has long since proven it has none. You are being used, Navy. Only the most blind would not see this.
Well said, Margaret. Well said. This is cold political calculus for the upcoming 2024 election, not the “love of a grandfather”. Joe pimped out his crack addicted son to foreign governments to get bribes that he couldn’t directly accept for himself.
It may well be in the child’s best interest to not have more than a passing relationship with the corrupt biden family. There’s not one in that entire family that has anything of any value to offer this child. Stay far away, Navy, very far away. I would hope there’s at least one on the child’s mother’s side of the family that can be a positive role model for her. Obviously, her mother has a lack of judgment having chosen to have even a one night stand with a biden; but maybe there’s at least someone close enough to be there for Navy in a way that benefits her future far more than any association with the bidens.
This won’t factor into voters’ minds next year. The media won’t speak of it so it’ll just become an aberration.
“This is not a political issue”
The economy is fine.
The Afghanistan withdrawal was a success.
We don’t censor dissenters.
Genital mutilation is gender-affirming care.
Appointing people because of their race is not racism.
Defunding and demoralizing the police keeps the innocent safe.
Bribery and extortion are merely influence peddling.
There was no protection conspiracy in HB plea agreement.
The DOJ is not weaponized.
The FBI is not politicized.
The Left has a strained relationship with reality and truth.
a Boy is a GIRL….just because I SAY SO
Sam, don’t forget “the border is closed.”
Good add. And the “whipping” incident.
Why did the United States start World War 2 by invading Normandy?
. However, few would have the stomach for how the Bidens treated this little girl.
I feel like all know and understand this truth. It leads to a basic Democrat core value. There is nothing sacred that Dems won’t sacrifice. The ends, justifies the means.
Something exposed by President Donald J Trump. The man running from President. You all Remember. Candidate Trump, Running for the office of President, was spied on by the FBI, and several other Federal agencies. Lead by President Obama.
Because the end, justifies the means.
Trump, who was found liable for sexual assault by a unanimous jury. But you’ll vote for him because the end justifies the means.
In New York City, the DA could get a unanimous verdict against Donald Trump for a murder he could prove he was 10,000 miles away from at the time of the crime.
Nope.
Oh, but yes.
Forgive me for not adhering to a civil ruling, that is on appeal. Over a case with no evidence that is~30 years in the past. No rational person would invest any waste of energy considering.
But good to know you promated the actions of the President of the United States leading the way to spy on political rivals. I guess there is no crime no foul.
You’ve got to be pretty stupid to believe that eye witness testimony isn’t evidence. It’s probably the most common kind of evidence presented at trials. Good to know that you don’t care that Trump’s a serial sexual abuser going back decades. The ends justify the means.
No, I didn’t “promate” anything, but keep imagining things, it’s easier than dealing with the truth.
The purported victim is not a “witness’.
Not only are victims witnesses, they are eye witnesses. Every person called to testify is a witness, but not all witnesses are eye witnesses.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/witness
“witness noun [ C ] US /ˈwɪt.nəs/ UK /ˈwɪt.nəs/
witness noun [C] (SEE) Add to word list B2
a person who sees an event happening, especially a crime or an accident: Police are appealing for witnesses to the accident to come forward.
According to (eye) witnesses, the robbery was carried out by two teenage boys.”
In other words, the witness sees something outside him/herself happening to other people, e.g., a traffic accident. The victim of a crime is inside the frame of the action, not outside the frame.
You didn’t scroll down far enough. We’re talking about a witness in court:
Meaning of witness in English
witness noun [C] (LAW)
a person in a law court who says what they know about a legal case or a particular person:
Ten witnesses are expected to testify at the trial today.
The key witness for the prosecution was offered police protection after she received death threats.
Everyone who testifies in court is a witness in the legal sense, including the victim.
That is funny.
Your brother “Anonymous” insists two eye witness whistleblowers with email, texts are not eye witnesses.
Good to know that you don’t care that Trump’s a serial sexual abuser going back decades. The ends justify the means.ON
One off is not a series. Zero off, doesn’t register.
Site all the case law that supports even ONE civil ruling using ONLY the victims testimony of an event that cant be place at a specific year or month.
The verdict is joke and will be overturned.
You clearly didn’t listen to the testimony from **three** women about Trump’s sexual abuse. Carroll wanted to call more women to testify, but the judge wouldn’t allow the others.
Ah, yes, some lunatic linked a big long list here a while back, I was particularly impressed by the young beauty pageant lady who whined ” He stared at me like I was a piece of meat”.
That was listed as sexual assault by your demoncrats.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Wow , she was so beautiful Trump stared at her, boosting her brand, and the same time attacking with orange man bad virtue signaling social media MSM payout points.
HAHAHAAHHAHAAHA
Transparent and pathetic.
ATS, lunatics frequently believe other lunatics. You aren’t a lunatic, are you?
Not just during his campaign, he was vilified and lied about during his presidency and after. Even his own party joined in the fray until they figured out how to use him to their advantage. But, they did everything possible to set him up with bad advice from the start of his presidency. Many in the Republican Party are just an extension of the Democratic Party. It’s just one big club. America needs a new party – a Conservative Party that will stand for the people who seek sanity in a world gone mad.
THE “FAKE,” THE WHOLE FAKE,” AND NOTHING BUT THE “FAKE,” SO HELP YOU, GOD!
Alvin “Mike Nifong” Bragg
E. Jean “Christine Ballsy Ford” Carroll
…and O.J. Simpson is still pursuing.
“But when things have settled a bit, I will pursue as my primary goal in life the killer or killers who slaughtered Nicole and Mr. Goldman. They are out there somewhere. Whatever it takes to identify them and bring them in, I will provide somehow.”
– Orenthal James Simpson
Just another example of how Biden’s reputation differs from who he really is. Biden has never been the good old Joe he and his media sycophants have portrayed. Rather, he has always been an intellectually challenged, pompous buffoon, congenital liar, and corrupt politician.
The Bidens remain slime—always were; always will be. Perhaps the little one will conclude she is lucky not to be burdened with a last name that equates to such corruption both spiritual and temporal. Deep down, why would a child (once she knows the history of her paternal side) want to inculde herself with the low-lives whom Joe Biden spawned? The Biden name equates to filth, corruption and the gutter. After all, what other President sold out his country for bribes? What other human beings would treat a little one with such shabby disregard? And hopefully, the culture that spawned the Bidens—where the dumbest man in the US Senate, who sold his office to the highest bidder for 50 years, becomes President—and the whole culture of corruption that is Washington, DC will meet its end and doom ala late 18th Century Versailles.
Maureen Dowd of the NYTimes, purportedly one of Joe Biden’s favorite scribes, scolded him about Navy in a recent column. Lo and behold, Dr. Jill and Joe had a “change of heart.”
Right, you can’t even count on ol pedopete to publicly keep his harsh elite sanctimony against his own blood – what a doof.
I’m pretty sure a “score” of secret service agents would be exactly twenty. At least that’s what Lincoln meant when he gave the Gettysburg Address. But that link is to a previous article which says, “As many as ten people were either bitten or threatened by the dog.”
If accuracy has ceased to be a goal, why not say the Bidens ignored scores of grandchildren for scores of years.
Only the dog knows the real “score.”.
I find it difficult to find an adjective to describe my feelings about Joe Biden. When its either the “Teeth” or the “Scowl” that appears on tv I get so depressed that people still have some regard for this despicable human being.
That is false. There was no legal, or even tactical, reason for the refusal of the First Couple to acknowledge Navy for four years.
Maybe it would take up less, 1, 0, to find a time in Joe’s long and ludicrous carrier when he was totally honest.
Seriously. Joe is a well known commodity in Washington DC. He is stupid, a raw bully, corrupt. The fake persona created by the silence of DC elite like Pelosi, McConnell, Fienstien, etal. Plus the MEDIA .
This is exactly a mirror image of the Democrats, and enough GOPe, to support the deep state.
There is for more than enough of this iceberg visible now, it is impossible to ignore the truth…
But that is exactly what is happening in real time.
“Washington is a hard town. I have lived and worked here for decades and I am still amazed by the cold calculations of many in this city. Long-standing values and associations are routinely jettisoned for personal advantage. Here the moral strictures of the rest of the nation are flipped; vice is a virtue and integrity is a weakness.“
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Sodom had a similar reputation. Like DC, it was the very bottom of the toilet bowl. Doubtful even 10 righteous people could be found there as Abraham negotiated with God. DC likely has less than that and finding three wise men and a virgin there is simply out of the question.
The sculpture of a lion that greets visitors to the Smithsonian National Zoo is said to roar every time an honest politician enters the zoo. True story.
Just keep Navy away from Pedo Joe.
Most corrupt President in US History.
Like I said earlier, the Bidens are the family from Hell. With the exception of innocent Navy, they ought to book return passage.
What changed? Oh Hunter Biden didn’t get his get out of jail free card, We don’t by this faux BS.