President Joe Biden reportedly wants to meet his granddaughter, four-year-old Navy Joan Roberts, who he refused to publicly acknowledge existed until last week, NBC News reported Wednesday.
Biden recognized his seventh grandchild – having previously insisted he only had six – for the first time in a statement Friday.
Biden now reportedly wants to meet Navy in person in an effort to dissipate rumors that he was ignoring her existence, according to people who spoke to NBC News.
NBC reported that it is currently unclear when and where the visit will take place. It is also unclear whether Navy’s mother and father, Hunter Biden and Lunden Roberts, will be in attendance.
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Hunter Biden has reportedly never met his daughter, who was born in 2018. Biden reportedly waited to acknowledge Navy until he got the go-ahead from Hunter Biden, according to NBC.
“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,” Biden said in a statement to People last Friday. “This is not a political issue, it’s a family matter.”
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre previously brushed off questions about Navy weeks before Biden admitted her existence. First Lady Jill Biden has left Navy out of the White House Christmas stockings since Biden took office in 2021.
“And then, the best part of it all, I have six grandchildren,” the president said in April. “And I’m crazy about them. And I speak to them every single day. Not a joke.”
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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