A letter received by AWN states that Hunter Biden’s attorney has informed House Oversight Chairman James Comer that his client, the son of the president, will decline the invitation to attend a public hearing.
In a closed-door deposition last month, Hunter Biden discussed his international business activities with the House Oversight and Judiciary committees. This was all part of a bigger effort by the Republican-controlled House to pursue his father for possible impeachment. House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan told AWN on Wednesday that Republicans are still preparing to hold a hearing next week with three other witnesses they have questioned as part of their inquiry into President Joe Biden.
“This hearing is not a serious oversight proceeding,” Abbe Lowell, the attorney, claims. It is an act tailor-made for right-wing media that you are using to revive your Conference’s dormant investigation.
The invitation was described by Lowell as “a Hail Mary pass,” and he wrote, “I thought even you would recognise your baseless impeachment proceeding was dead.”
Also criticised by Lowell in his letter was Comer’s choice to have the president’s son’s disreputable business associates present at the same session. He stated that the committee ought to summon Jared Kushner and other Trump family members in addition to Hunter Biden if Comer was really committed to conducting an oversight session to examine allegations of influence peddling.
Within the six-hour confinement of the deposition, Lowell said that the son of the president addressed each and every question posed by the Republicans. To further his case that a hearing was unnecessary, Lowell even cited Comer’s own statements.
“All we need are people to come in for the depositions and then we’ll be finished,” Comer stated in January.
Comer had requested a certain day, but Lowell informed her that “the scheduling conflict is the least of the issues” due to a court hearing in California that he and Hunter Biden had to attend.
Comer told AWN, “I’m confused,” in reaction to Lowell’s letter. I had assumed they were seeking a public hearing.
Next week’s hearing will hear from witnesses like Devon Archer, a former business associate of the Biden family who testified privately last year that “nothing” significant was discussed in the twenty meetings in which he was present, despite the fact that he remembered then-Vice President Joe Biden being put on speakerphone. Archer testified that Hunter Biden profited off his father’s “brand” internationally, and Republicans have used this to their advantage.
Tony Bobulinski is another witness; he has accused the president of wrongdoing, but no evidence has been found to support his claims. Thirdly, there’s Jason Galanis, who is serving time for a separate fraud operation and is presently a federal prison inmate.
House Republicans and Biden’s legal staff have been engaged in a protracted back-and-forth for months.
Lowell stated that Hunter Biden would only attend a public hearing after Republicans first summoned him. After Republicans were about to accuse Biden of criminal contempt of Congress for ignoring a subpoena for a deposition, the two camps reached a compromise on that matter.