Hunter Biden declined to testify at James Comer’s public listening to and recommended an investigation into Jared Kushner and the Trumps for affect peddling.
CNN reported that Hunter Biden declined Comer’s supply to publicly testify by way of a letter to Home Oversight Committee Chair Comer by way of is lawyer:
The legal professional, Abbe Lowell, argued the listening to “is not a serious oversight proceeding. It is your attempt to resuscitate your Conference’s moribund inquiry with a made-for-right-wing-media, circus act.”
Calling the invitation “a Hail Mary pass,” Lowell wrote: “I thought even you would recognize your baseless impeachment proceeding was dead.”
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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 severe 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 is going to try to revive his dead as a doornail Biden impeachment with a public listening to that may characteristic the entire similar discredited names and faces that Republicans have been pushing for greater than a 12 months.
Comer has nonetheless not give you a single witness who can testify to President Biden committing an impeachable offense. The Home Republican recreation has grown past tiresome. The lifeless impeachment wants to finish.
Hunter Biden and his legal professional have been appropriate.
If Chair Comer is severe about investigating a member of the family of a president for affect peddling, Jared Kushner, who worked in the Trump administration, is running around with $2 billion in Saudi cash and a whole lot of unanswered questions.
Republicans would somewhat give attention to Hunter Biden and his work than admit the very corruption that occurred beneath Donald Trump whereas he was president.
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Jason is the managing editor. He’s additionally a White Home Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Diploma in Political Science. His graduate work targeted on public coverage, with a specialization in social reform actions.
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