House Republicans have prevailed in the battle to force Hunter Biden to answer how his dubious overseas business deals enriched his family, including President Joe Biden.
The Washington Times reported that Hunter will give a deposition during a closed session of the GOP-led House Oversight Committee, as Republican lawmakers had demanded.
According to the Times, Hunter’s lawyer, Abbe Lowell, denounced the two subpoenas issued by Congress and an upcoming House vote to hold the president’s son in contempt of Congress for failing to comply with them.
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But, Lowell said in a letter to lawmakers, “If you issue a new proper subpoena, now that there is a duly authorized impeachment inquiry, Mr. Biden will comply for a hearing or deposition. We will accept such a subpoena on Mr. Biden’s behalf.”
The decision by Hunter’s legal team, which the Times reported on Friday, came two days after last week’s stunt during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee.
Hunter, Lowell, and other members of an entourage made a surprise appearance as the panel debated the contempt of Congress resolution for him. He exited as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene prepared to speak about the resolution.
Greene called him a “coward” for refusing to sit through her comments, while at another point in the hearing GOP Rep. Nancy Mace said Hunter had “no balls” for refusing to testify.
Last month, Hunter refused to show up for scheduled testimony and instead held a press conference outside the Capitol where he denounced the Republicans’ proceeding.
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Lowell, in the letter to lawmakers, claimed that the subpoenas were “invalid” because they were issued long before the House voted in December to launch the impeachment inquiry into Hunter’s father.
Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy had unilaterally done so, following a precedent set by former Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi, when she opened impeachment proceedings against former President Donald Trump.
Republicans cautiously accepted the terms of Hunter’s surrender.
“While we will work to schedule a deposition date, we will not tolerate any additional stunts or delay from Hunter Biden. The American people will not tolerate, and the House will not provide, special treatment for the Biden family,” House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer and Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan told the Times in a statement.
Republicans are trying to learn how involved Joe Biden was in his son’s businesses, which raked in $24 million for the family, and how much he flexed the political muscle of his office to help Hunter’s business associates.
Most prominent of that was whether Joe, as vice president, pressured Ukrainian leaders to fire a prosecutor investigating corruption at Burisma, an energy company that hired Hunter for its board, even though he had no experience in the energy industry.
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