Georges Berges told members of Congress he spoke twice with the president.
Hunter Biden’s art dealer spoke twice with President Joe Biden, the gallerist told members of Congress in a recent interview.
Georges Berges told the House Judiciary Committee in a closed-door interview that he never spoke with the White House. But he did say he spent time in-person with President Biden, the father of Mr. Biden.
“Have you spoken to President Biden?” Mr. Berges was asked.
“Yes,” he said.
When asked whether that was in-person or over the phone, he said, “both.”
The in-person encounter was at the White House in 2022 when Naomi Biden, Mr. Biden’s daughter and President Biden’s granddaughter, was married there, the art dealer said.
The other time was over the phone.
“My daughter finished camp, and he called to wish her, congratulate her for finishing camp, and I answered the phone,” Mr. Berges said.
“Just said ‘hi.’ Just ‘hi, hello,’” Mr. Berges said, describing the conversations. “I didn’t discuss anything related to Hunter’s art.”
The White House did not respond to a request for comment.
“That’s interesting, because the Oversight Project searched the visitor logs and Berges doesn’t show up. So did he not go to the White House or did they keep him off the logs?” Mike Howell, director of the Oversight Project at the Heritage Foundation, told The Epoch Times in an email.
The contact between President Biden and one of Mr. Biden’s business associates is the latest interaction to be discovered by House Republicans as they probe the president for possible wrongdoing, with an eye toward impeachment.
Devon Archer, who worked with Mr. Biden for years, told members that President Biden attended several dinners at Washington’s Cafe Milano that featured multiple associates of Mr. Biden, including Ukrainian businessman Vadym Pozharskyi. President Biden also participated in business calls, according to Mr. Archer.
Emails obtained by the House also showed President Biden repeatedly in contact with Eric Schwerin, another of Mr. Biden’s former associates. President Biden, who was vice president at the time, exchanged dozens of emails with Mr. Schwerin while using a pseudonym, the emails showed.
