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 provide to publicly testify by a letter to Home Oversight Committee Chair Comer by is lawyer:
The legal professional, Abbe Lowell, argued the listening to “just isn’t a severe oversight continuing. It’s your try and resuscitate your Convention’s moribund inquiry with a made-for-right-wing-media, circus act.”
Calling the invitation “a Hail Mary move,” Lowell wrote: “I assumed even you’ll acknowledge your baseless impeachment continuing was lifeless.”
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In his letter, Lowell additionally criticized Comer’s determination to ask a number of 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 handle 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 lifeless as a doornail Biden impeachment with a public listening to that may characteristic all the identical discredited names and faces that Republicans have been pushing for greater than a yr.
Comer has nonetheless not give you a single witness who can testify to President Biden committing an impeachable offense. The Home Republican sport has grown past tiresome. The lifeless impeachment wants to finish.
Hunter Biden and his legal professional had been appropriate.
If Chair Comer is severe 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 relatively deal with Hunter Biden and his work than admit the very corruption that occurred underneath Donald Trump whereas he was president.
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