#shorts On 4/18/2023, a reporter asked White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, “Listen, just to close the book on Ireland, since we just got back. It was a highly personal trip. There were a lot of cousins there. Did Valerie and Hunter — (laughter) — and Hunter Biden — they flew on Air Force One. Did they contribute? Did they pay for airfare, accommodations, ground transportation? What — I think — did they?

MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Look, we took — we’ve — this is not the first time. Let’s be very, very clear. It is consistent with other presidents when they’ve had family travel with them abroad. This is nothing new. So I just want to make sure that we make that very clear to the American people.

Reporter: Point taken.
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: And, of course, we followed every protocol that any other president or every other president has taken when they — when their family has traveled. And so, yes.
All right. I’m going to go. I’m —
Reporter: “Yes” what?

MS. JEAN-PIERRE: So we — we took every protocol that is necessary and needed when a family traveled. We did nothing different than past presidents. And so, yes, they paid — they paid for their way.
Reporter: They paid for their share.
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Yeah. Like every other — this is — this is not unusual. This is not the first time that families have traveled with presidents. So, there’s — there’s — there’s nothing — there’s no “there there,” as they would say.

other clips of this published longer video is here: https://youtu.be/bery0o9GZdo
Jean-Pierre insists, “There’s no ‘there’ there” when asked if Hunter paid his own way on Ireland trip.