Bidens Ditch Christmas Stockings for Grandkids

(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

For the past two years, Christmas at the White House has featured exotic displays of decorations orchestrated by First Lady Jill Biden. This isn’t unusual for any presidency and she seems to have done a mostly tasteful or at least harmless job of it. One feature that regularly caught the attention of the media, however, was the collection of Christmas stockings that were hung “with care.” They were dedicated to the Bidens’ grandchildren and even their pets but there was always one name missing. That would be Navy Joan Roberts, the unacknowledged daughter of Hunter Biden and his former exotic dancer girlfriend. The Bidens finally admitted to having a seventh granddaughter earlier this year, so you might imagine that someone has been busily at work crafting a new stocking with Navy’s name on it. Nope. Jill Biden avoided the awkward optics by opting to eliminate the display of stockings altogether. (NY Post)

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The first family knocked their own socks off with this year’s White House Christmas decor.

In a stark departure from the previous two Yuletides, first lady Jill Biden did away with hanging stockings for her grandchildren and pets over the mantle in the State Dining Room.

The change comes months after President Biden and his wife issued a statement publicly acknowledging first son Hunter Biden’s out-of-wedlock daughter, Navy Joan Roberts, as their seventh grandchild.

There may not be anything on display for the grandchildren, but Dr. Jill did at least include a statue of the former First Dog, Commander, despite the fact that he was shipped off to a farm after biting more than a dozen people, including Secret Service agents. There is also a statue of their cat.

A White House spokesperson explained away the missing stockings by saying that the family would be spending Christmas at Camp David this year. Stockings will be displayed at that location instead. So will there be a “Navy” stocking on display over the fireplace at the presidential retreat? The White House curiously didn’t return a request for comment on that detail.

You have to wonder how the Bidens plan on playing this out. The press is typically invited in to photograph and share the First Family’s holiday displays. Will they knuckle under and have a stocking made for her before the decorations start going up, or would that be too much of an admission of guilt for them to stomach? After all, they spent years denying that the little girl even existed, with both of the Bidens repeatedly making pointed statements about their “six grandchildren.” Hanging up that seventh stocking might be a bit too much crow for them to eat with their figgy pudding.

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Like many of the other lies that the Bidens have woven into their carefully crafted public personas, the image of Joe as the loving, doting grandfather is one of the most offensive. Joe has frequently boasted about how he calls all of his grandchildren “every single day.” But it’s obvious that Navy wasn’t receiving any such calls from her famous grandfather. Has she gotten one since the forced admission of her existence? She clearly wasn’t receiving a cut of the infamous cash jackpots that the Bidens have amassed over his years of public service, since her mother had to badger Hunter into court just to get her child support payments. Will the Big Guy shake loose the piggy bank a bit for her this Christmas?

Don’t hold your breath. Joe and Jill Biden never would have acknowledged the little girl if the political pressure to do so hadn’t grown to overwhelming levels. They are cruel, uncaring people at heart. Joe is well known for his short temper and frequent ugly outbursts. Their seventh grandchild is a reminder of a political sore spot for them, so she likely won’t be finding any extravagant presents waiting under the tree this Christmas. I hope I’m wrong about this, but I rather doubt it.

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