Joe Biden just threw his son Hunter under the bus by effectively calling him a liar.

Americans have learned of this now-infamous WhatsApp text from Hunter Biden to Chinese businessman Henry Zhao. It reads:

I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled. Tell the director that I would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand, and now means tonight…. I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction. I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father.

Now contrast with this headline from CNN:

President Biden denies he was present during alleged Hunter Biden 2017 text

The CNN story reports:

President Joe Biden on Wednesday emphatically denied that he was involved or present when his son Hunter Biden is alleged to have texted a Chinese business partner in 2017, claiming that he was sitting with his father.

Asked whether he was involved in the business dealings or was sitting with Hunter when the message was sent, Biden told reporters Wednesday, “No. I wasn’t.”

Asked again, Biden replied more forcefully, “No.”

So, what do we have here?

What we have here is the president of the United States throwing his son under the bus.

Again. Here’s Hunter saying definitively, bold print for emphasis supplied:

I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me….

I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father.

And here’s Joe, once again, bold print supplied:

Asked whether he was involved in the business dealings or was sitting with Hunter when the message was sent, Biden told reporters Wednesday, “No. I wasn’t.”

Asked again, Biden replied more forcefully, “No.”

In other words? In other words, Joe Biden has now bluntly called son Hunter a liar. Or Hunter is calling Dad a liar.

So. Who is telling the truth? Is son Hunter lying — as Joe suddenly insists? Or, in fact, is Joe lying? Which, in effect, is what Hunter is saying.

The real problem here is that Joe Biden has built an entire career on telling blatant untruths. (RELATED: Joe Biden Is Not Senile — He’s Stupid)

Here’s an earlier Biden story from years ago that involved yours truly. It was September of 1987, and Biden was running for the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination.

After being caught plagiarizing from one Neil Kinnock, then-leader of the British Labour Party — and caught on video tape by the campaign of Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis, a competitor for the 1988 nomination — Biden’s campaign said it was a one-time error. He doesn’t plagiarize, they said.

It wasn’t true.

In 2019, the Washington Post summed up what happened next, recalling my youthful role in this bizarre 1987 episode:

Meanwhile, Jeffrey Lord, then a staffer in the Reagan White House, was watching the news unfold with frustration. Months earlier, stuck in Washington in the middle of a snowstorm, he had turned on C-SPAN to watch Biden give a speech to California Democrats. A fan of Robert Kennedy, Lord had immediately noticed that Biden was using long passages from Kennedy’s speeches without giving him credit.

“So then you fast-forward to … the Neil Kinnock situation,” Lord, who today is a pro-Trump pundit, said in an interview. “The response was: ‘Oh, it was a mistake. He doesn’t do this kind of thing.’ I knew it wasn’t true.”

Lord called Maureen Dowd at the New York Times, drove to his home to dig out recordings of the Kennedy speeches and walked them over to the Times bureau in Washington. The story broke soon afterward, along with revelations that Biden had lifted sentences from Hubert Humphrey in yet another speech, without crediting him. (Biden aides said they had forgotten to write the attribution of the Kennedy lines into his speech.)

In other words? In other words, it became apparent all the way back in 1987 and now continuing right up until today that Joe Biden has an instinctive need to make up stories out of whole cloth for what he perceives as his political — and, we now know, his financial — benefit.

Today he goes out of his way to proclaim his love and trust for son Hunter. The next minute he is effectively calling his son a liar because Dad wants to make sure Dad is not caught making millions from his son’s foreign business adventures using Dad’s name and political clout.

Ya can’t make it up.

But Joe keeps trying. And, alas for Joe, a career’s worth of playing this game seems to be catching up to him.

Stay tuned.