Jean-Pierre won’t talk Biden ‘brand’ or art sales — but says agencies should ‘work with’ GOP on records requests

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Monday refused to discuss Hunter Biden’s art sales or define the Biden family “brand” that the first son allegedly sold abroad.

Jean-Pierre only said federal agencies should “work with” House panels looking into those matters as Speaker Kevin McCarthy threatens an impeachment inquiry if records are concealed.

House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) told The Post that Jean-Pierre’s remarks were “ironic” and that there’s been too little cooperation to date.

“It’s ironic that the White House press secretary is calling on federal agencies to cooperate with Congress when the Biden administration has sought to undermine congressional oversight at every turn,” Comer said.

“The Biden administration has not provided all information requested related to President Biden’s irresponsible mishandling of classified documents, the White House’s secret arrangement with Hunter Biden’s art gallerist to hide the identities of his art patrons, then-Vice President Biden’s – also known as Robert L. Peters – emails where he used a pseudonym, and more,” Comer added.

“Not only has the Biden administration not cooperated with Congress, President Biden continues to lie to the American people about his involvement in his family’s influence peddling schemes. It’s past time for the Biden administration to fully cooperate with Congress and provide the transparency that Americans expect from their government.” 

Comer also joined House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith (R-Mo.) Monday in demanding documents on Attorney General Merrick Garland’s appointment on Aug. 11 of Delaware US Attorney David Weiss as special counsel in the Justice Department’s probe into Hunter.

Weiss had previously presided over what IRS whistleblowers described as a coverup in the tax fraud case into Hunter.

Weiss’s office allegedly steered IRS agents away from investigating Joe Biden’s role in Hunter’s dealings despite communications that directly implicated him ahead of the transfer of $5.1 million from Chinese state-linked entities to Hunter in 2017.

The whistleblowers said Weiss’s team also tipped off Hunter Biden’s lawyers to a planned storage-locker search and interview attempt, scuttling both, dragged out charging decisions, allowing some statutes of limitation to expire, and withheld information from tax agents before inking a probation-only plea deal that collapsed last month under scrutiny by a federal judge.

Garland is accused by the whistleblowers of misleading Congress about Weiss’s ability to independently charge the president’s son and allowing Biden-appointed US attorneys in Los Angeles and Washington, DC, to block charges.

Meanwhile, Jean-Pierre said at her regular briefing that federal agencies should cooperate with inquiries from House Republicans, even as she declined to address some of the same subject matter.

“We know that from a Hunter Biden associate now that he sold the appearance of access to then-Vice President Biden. Are you confident that he has stopped doing that?” Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy asked Jean-Pierre after noting that Hunter is selling novice artworks — reportedly raking in at least $1.3 million since his dad became president.

Buyers have included Elizabeth Hirsh Naftali, who has enjoyed frequent access to the West Wing and a presidential appointment to a prestigious board.

Jean-Pierre responded to Doocy, “That is a question for Hunter Biden and his representatives.

Doocy followed up by saying that former Hunter Biden business partner “Devon Archer talks about how he and Hunter Biden tried to profit off the Biden ‘brand.’ What is the Biden brand?”

The White House spokeswoman replied, “I’m not going to get into it from here. We’re going to move on.”

Also at the Monday briefing, Ed O’Keefe of CBS News asked about McCarthy saying Sunday that Republicans are moving closer to launching an impeachment inquiry into the Biden family’s foreign dealings during the president’s vice presidency and the alleged coverup of a tax fraud case into Hunter

“The House speaker yesterday said moving towards impeachment now is ‘a natural step forward’ and would be an opportunity for Congress to get all the information they need, in his words,” O’Keefe said, inquiring about whether it makes budget talks between both sides “more difficult” ahead of a Sept. 30 government funding deadline.

Jean-Pierre replied, “I can’t really speak to the House Republicans and what they’re focused on.

“This is a president who wants to work in a bipartisan way, and he has been able to do that as it relates to historical pieces of legislation,” she said. “He wants to continue to do that, and he hopes congressional Republicans would continue to join him, or join him, in doing that. And that is going to be his focus instead of more baseless political stunts.”

O’Keefe pressed, “Should the White House perhaps be urging the departments to cooperate with ongoing investigations?

“We are always of course urge [sic] the different agencies and departments to work with Congress of course — that is something that we always urge,” she said. “I can’t speak to that, what they’re complaining about.”

Republicans have sought a wide range of documents, including records dating to Biden’s vice presidency dealing with his relatives’ overseas dealings and documents on the alleged coverup in the tax fraud case against Hunter.

McCarthy said this month that Republicans even want Joe Biden’s personal bank records.

House Republicans could launch an impeachment inquiry as early as next month, though it’s unclear if they will seek to secure additional witness testimony linking the president to foreign ventures.

Acher told the Oversight Committee on July 31 that then-Veep Joe Biden attended DC dinners in 2014 and 2015 with his son’s Eastern European and Central Asian patrons, had coffee in 2013 with the incoming CEO of a Chinese state-backed investment fund that Hunter cofounded and was on speaker phone during about 20 of his son’s business meetings.

Archer revealed that Joe Biden also wrote him a letter in 2011 thanking him for attending an official lunch with then-Chinese President Hu Jintao and expressing his happiness that Archer and Hunter were partnering on foreign ventures.

GOP leaders have used political brinksmanship before to acquire documents, including by threatening to hold FBI Director Christopher Wray in contempt for refusing in May to hand over an informant file accusing Joe Biden of bribery. Wray relented.

Archer said he knew nothing about the FBI informant’s claim that Burisma Holdings owner Mykola Zlochevsky, who paid Hunter Biden up to $1 million per year beginning in 2014 to serve on the company’s board, was “coerced” into paying $10 million in bribes to Joe and Hunter Biden in exchange for the ouster of Ukrainian prosecutor-general Viktor Shokin.

But Archer said Hunter, Zlochevsky and Burisma board adviser Vadym Pozharskyi stepped away from a December 2015 business meeting in Dubai to call the then-vice president, who proceeded to successfully push for Shokin’s removal by threatening to withhold $1 billion in US loan guarantees.