Hunter Biden declined to testify at James Comer’s public listening to and instructed an investigation into Jared Kushner and the Trumps for affect peddling.
CNN reported that Hunter Biden declined Comer’s provide to publicly testify via a letter to Home Oversight Committee Chair Comer via is lawyer:
The lawyer, Abbe Lowell, argued the listening to “isn’t a critical oversight continuing. It’s your try to resuscitate your Convention’s moribund inquiry with a made-for-right-wing-media, circus act.”
Calling the invitation “a Hail Mary cross,” Lowell wrote: “I assumed even you’ll acknowledge your baseless impeachment continuing was useless.”
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In his letter, Lowell additionally criticized Comer’s choice to ask among the discredited enterprise associates tied to the president’s son to the identical listening to. He argued if Comer was critical about holding an oversight listening to to deal with alleged affect peddling, the committee ought to invite Jared Kushner and members of the Trump household alongside Hunter Biden.
The investigation of the Trump household for affect peddling is probably going coming after Democrats take again the Home. Within the meantime, Comer goes to attempt to revive his useless as a doornail Biden impeachment with a public listening to that can function all the similar discredited names and faces that Republicans have been pushing for greater than a 12 months.
Comer has nonetheless not provide you with a single witness who can testify to President Biden committing an impeachable offense. The Home Republican sport has grown past tiresome. The useless impeachment wants to finish.
Hunter Biden and his lawyer have been right.
If Chair Comer is critical about investigating a member of the family of a president for affect peddling, Jared Kushner, who labored within the Trump administration, is operating round with $2 billion in Saudi money and an entire lot of unanswered questions.
Republicans would slightly deal with Hunter Biden and his work than admit the very corruption that occurred beneath Donald Trump whereas he was president.
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