Joe and Jill Biden arrived on Nantucket on Tuesday for Thanksgiving after the White House defended their stay at billionaire David Rubenstein’s private compound on the posh island.
The Bidens’ children Hunter and Ashley were with them as were Hunter’s wife Melissa and a gaggle of grandkids: Naomi, Finnegan, Maisy, Natalie, Hunter, and Beau Biden; and, Peter Neal, Naomi’s fiancé.
The Bidens landed after taking part in a service project at DC Central Kitchen with Vice President Kamala Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki defended the first couple’s stay on the island off the coast of Massachusetts amid soaring prices where ordinary Americans are struggling to pay for their Thanksgiving dinners. Psaki said food prices weren’t that high and everyone should spend the holiday with loved ones.
The White House stressed the Bidens have been going to Nantucket for 46 years since before Biden was a senator. The first couple are scheduled to return to the White House on Sunday.
The president has come under fire for spending his stay at the home of family friend Rubenstein, the billionaire co-founder of the Carlyle Group, and a former advisor to US President Jimmy Carter. Biden is close friends with the Carters and often visits their home.
The couple and their family will be staying on their close friend Rubenstein’s $20million 13-acre compound on Nantucket Habor, an estate Biden visited in 2014 when he was vice president.
Rubenstein, 72, is an American billionaire businessman with a net worth of $4.5 billion, according to Forbes. He is the co-founder of the private equity firm The Carlyle Group, a global investment company based in Washington D.C. The firm has $260 billion in assets under management.
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Obviously not *ALL* of Bidens granddaughters were there, right?
The great gathering of the crookedest bastards on earth. What a worthless bunch of POS. Makes Alcapone look like a Sunday school teacher.
They are all sitting around the feast saying “Let them eat cake”.
What does it cost to shauffer Biden all over the Place every week ????? Taxpayer $$$$$$$
More disinformation. Biden was elected to Senate in 1972; sworn in 1973. First wife and infant daughter killed in car wreck between election and being sworn. So the info he’s been coming to Nantucket since 1975 before he was a senator is easily disproven.
Good ol’ lunch bucket Joe! Lapdog of the wealthy.