Hunter Biden gives to testify earlier than Congress in December

Hunter Biden stated Tuesday he would testify earlier than Congress subsequent month, as a part of a Republican-led impeachment investigation into President Joe Biden and his household.

“Your empty investigation has gone on too lengthy losing too many better-used assets. It ought to come to an finish,” Hunter Biden’s lawyer Abbe Lowell wrote in a letter to the chairman of the Home Oversight Committee.

“Consequently, Mr. Biden will seem at such a public listening to on the date you seen, December 13, or any date in December that we are able to prepare,” wrote Lowell.

The defiant letter got here weeks after Home Oversight Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., subpoenaed the Biden’s son and brother, and known as for them to sit down for closed-door depositions, as he conducts an impeachment inquiry into the Democratic president.

Whereas Lowell’s letter quotes Comer saying in September Hunter Biden can be “welcome” to look earlier than Congress, it’s unclear if Comer will signal onto the proposal for a public listening to.

A spokesman for Comer didn’t instantly reply to CNBC’s request for touch upon the letter.

Comer and different Republicans accuse the president of being concerned in, and benefiting from, influence-peddling schemes devised by his relations, supposed to complement each other by advantage of their ties to a robust politician.

The White Home has roundly denied any wrongdoing by the president. Democrats have blasted the impeachment efforts as a political fishing expedition.

“Your Committee has been working for nearly a yr—with out success—to tie our consumer’s enterprise actions to his father,” Lowell wrote in Tuesday’s letter.

He accused Comer of hypocrisy, for claiming that he needs to probe potential conflicts of curiosity surrounding the enterprise actions of a president’s household, whereas “turning a blind eye towards former President Trump and his household’s companies.”

“Not like members of the Trump household, Hunter is a non-public one who has by no means labored in any household enterprise nor ever served within the White Home or in any public workplace,” wrote Lowell.

“However this stark distinction, you will have manipulated Hunter’s respectable enterprise dealings and his instances of horrible habit right into a politically motivated foundation for hearings to accuse his father of some wrongdoing,” Lowell wrote.

Lowell stated they have been providing Comer a public listening to with Hunter Biden, as a substitute of a deposition behind closed doorways, as a result of, “We’ve seen you employ closed-door classes to control, even distort the information and misinform the general public.”

“We subsequently suggest opening the door,” he wrote.

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