Representatives James Comer and Jim Jordan et al seem to have walked proper right into a relatively intelligent lure set by Hunter Biden’s authorized crew after the President’s son made a surprise appearance on Wednesday, providing to testify in public.
“BREAKING: Hunter Biden just delivered a devastating blow to the contempt proceedings. This new letter from his counsel Abbe Lowell shows that the House GOP walked into a trap,” CNN authorized analyst Norm Eisen wrote.
Hunter Biden’s authorized crew despatched a letter to Jordan and James, laying out, per Eisen’s thread, the next points:
1. “the subpoena predates the formal impeachment inquiry
That signifies that this explicit subpoena is a nullity”
The brand new letter actually will get into that.
Because it factors out, the subpoena predates the formal impeachment inquiry
That signifies that this explicit subpoena is a nullity
3/x pic.twitter.com/YbXGkplevu
— Norm Eisen (norm.eisen on Threads) (@NormEisen) January 12, 2024
2. “As if that weren’t bad enough, the letter also points out that the Oversight Committee has seemingly offered a public hearing but is backtracking on their word”
3. “And the coup de grâce—Hunter is providing to barter new testimony or deposition
He’s put the committee in a field & felony contempt won’t be enforced by DOJ in these circumstances”
Jordan and Comer had been making an attempt to carry Hunter Biden in contempt for not responding to a subpoena — an irony as a result of Jim Jordan defied his personal subpoena over a way more related matter that impacted a majority of voters — after two GOP-led Home committees they chair (Home Judiciary Committee and Home Oversight and Accountability Committee) voted to approve a contempt decision on Wednesday night.
The contempt continuing “suffers from fatal legal infirmities,” Eisen explained on Thursday.
Hunter Biden needs to testify publicly as a result of James Comer has a historical past of mischaracterizing and even mendacity about witness statements from closed-door interviews. The Republican Chairman has additionally lied in regards to the existence of a closed-door interview. He mentioned he would launch transcripts of closed-door interviews however didn’t. He even managed to lie about attending a closed-door interview.
Home Republicans have one week till a shutdown, however they’re spending their assets trolling Hunter Biden and “libs” on Twitter and making an attempt to haul in members of the President’s household, together with his late son’s widow, as a result of they haven’t but discovered something over which they may even show-impeach Biden. All they want is one thing that appears dangerous, it doesn’t need to be dangerous, as a result of they aren’t holding themselves to the foundations and norms to which Democrats as a complete have a tendency to carry themselves. However Republicans can’t even handle that.
One week till a shutdown, and Home Republicans are spending their time trolling… “libs.” pic.twitter.com/2wc6l7aKTw
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) January 12, 2024
In the meantime, Hunter Biden has managed to journey the 2 Chairs, who’re so keen to help Donald Trump they don’t appear able to trying the place they’re going. The one good factor right here for Home Republicans is that they don’t have any disgrace, in order that they gained’t endure the embarrassment that almost all of us would endure if we, in entrance of the nation, slipped on our personal banana peel whereas our goal danced away singing.
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