Hunter Biden refused to testify at James Comer’s public hearing and suggested an investigation into Jared Kushner and the Trumps for influence peddling.
CNN reported that Hunter Biden rejected Comer’s offer to testify publicly via a letter to House Oversight Committee Chairman Comer via his attorney:
The attorney, Abbot Lowell, argued that the hearing “is not a serious oversight proceeding. It is your attempt to resuscitate the moribund investigation of your Conference with a circus show tailor-made for the right-wing media.”
Calling the invitation “a Hail Mary pass,” Lowell wrote, “I thought even you would recognize that your baseless impeachment proceedings were dead.”
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In his letter, Lowell also criticized Comer’s decision to invite some of the discredited business associates linked to the president’s son to the same hearing. He argued that if Comer was serious about holding an oversight hearing to address alleged influence peddling, the committee should invite Jared Kushner and Trump family members along with Hunter Biden.
The investigation into the Trump family for influence peddling will likely begin after Democrats take back the House. Meanwhile, Comer will try to resurrect his dead under Biden’s impeachment with a public hearing that will feature all the same discredited names and faces that Republicans have been pushing for more than a year.
Comer has not yet been able to find a single witness who can testify that President Biden committed an unimpeachable crime. The Republican game in the House has become more than a little boring. Dead impeachment must end.
Hunter Biden and his lawyer were right.
If President Comer is serious about investigating a member of a president’s family for influence peddling, Jared Kushner, who worked in the Trump administration, is walking around with $2 billion in Saudi cash and a lot of questions without answer.
Republicans would rather focus on Hunter Biden and his paintings than admit to the same corruption that occurred under Donald Trump while he was president.
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Jason is the managing editor. He is also a member of the White House press pool and a congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a bachelor’s degree in political science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.
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