WATCH: Pres. Biden ignores questions when asked about his son’s business dealings with Russian oligarch.
“Why have you stopped taking questions from the press,” a journalist shouts. “What are you afraid of?!”
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) June 16, 2022
A reporter asked Biden about Russian billionaire Elena Baturina, who paid his son, Hunter, $3.5 million to his firm, Rosemont Seneca Thornton, in 2014.
The president has held 8 solo press conferences during his time in office—six in 2021 and two in 2022—then 7 joint conferences, according to the American Presidency Project. Former Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump both held at least double the number of news conferences in a year than Biden has thus far, with Obama holding 27 and Trump 21 conferences in total in their first year in office, while Biden held 6.