Published January 10, 2024
Today on Capitol Hill, Hunter Biden made an unexpected appearance just as committees were preparing to vote on advancing a motion to hold him in contempt after ignoring a subpoena.
To make matters worse, Biden was present in a congressional hearing room openly mocking the Republican members of the committee tasked with investigating his business dealings and compliance with congressional subpoenas.
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🚨 Hunter Biden has arrived at the Capitol as a House committee considers holding him in contempt over ignoring a subpoena pic.twitter.com/LTEWmVyxRv
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) January 10, 2024
To make matters worse, Biden was present in a congressional hearing room openly mocking the Republican members of the committee tasked with investigating his business dealings and compliance with congressional subpoenas.
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Hunter Biden just walked in our Oversight hearing to hold him in contempt.
Hunter can’t follow the law!
Showing up after he’s broken the law by violating his subpoena is not following the law, Hunter must follow the law!!
All Hunter has done is break the law. pic.twitter.com/HTvr7vvUaS
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) January 10, 2024
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SOURCE: www.thegatewaypundit.com
RELATED: Hunter Biden makes surprise appearance on Capitol Hill where Republican-led committees consider holding him in contempt of Congress
Published January 10, 2024
Washington — Hunter Biden, President Biden’s son, made an unexpected appearance at a contentious meeting of the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday, where Republicans are moving forward with an effort to punish him for refusing to comply with a congressional subpoena.
The Oversight and Judiciary Committees are meeting to vote on resolutions recommending the full House find Hunter Biden in criminal contempt of Congress. If the House then takes up and approves the contempt resolutions, the Justice Department would decide whether to prosecute the president’s son.
Hunter Biden arrived on Capitol Hill with his lawyers and, asked by CBS News whether he would testify, replied, “If they let me.” He attended the Oversight Committee’s meeting for less than 30 minutes, during which the committee descended into crosstalk and chaos as Republican Rep. Nancy Mace addressed the president’s son directly.
“He blatantly defied two lawful subpoenas,” Oversight Committee chairman James Comer said in opening remarks. “Hunter Biden’s willful refusal to comply with the committee’s subpoenas is a criminal act. It constitutes contempt of Congress and warrants referral to the appropriate United States Attorneys Office for prosecution as prescribed by the law. We will not provide Hunter Biden with special treatment because of his last name.”
But Rep. Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the Oversight panel, accused Comer of obstructing his own investigation, given that Hunter Biden was willing to testify in public. The Maryland Democrat invoked the names of other congressional Republicans — Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan and Reps. Andy Biggs and Scott Perry — who received subpoenas for testimony from the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, but did not comply.
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SOURCE: www.cbsnews.com
RELATED: House GOP releases Hunter Biden contempt resolution
Published January 8, 2024
The House Oversight and Accountability Committee on Monday released the text of a resolution to hold Hunter Biden, the president’s son, in contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena to appear for a closed-door deposition as part of the House GOP’s impeachment inquiry into President Biden.
The brief resolution directs the Speaker to refer the contempt report “to an appropriate United States attorney, to the end that Mr. Biden be proceeded against in the manner and form provided by law,” and it calls on the Speaker to “otherwise take all appropriate action to enforce the subpoena.”
The Oversight and House Judiciary panels are scheduled to hold markups Wednesday morning to consider the contempt resolution, which Oversight Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) and Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) had promised to move forward on after Hunter Biden did not appear for a Dec. 13 deposition.
Hunter Biden had offered to appear in a public hearing, with his legal counsel arguing House Republicans would misrepresent closed-door testimony and pointing to a previous statement from Comer saying witnesses could come in “depositions or committee hearings, whichever they choose.”
But Republicans said a public format, with rounds of questioning cycling between members on the panel, was insufficient alone for the investigation, offering a public hearing at a later date and to release the transcript of the deposition. The Republican leaders noted that initial closed-door testimony is standard for such inquiries.
“In no uncertain terms, Mr. Biden has no valid reason for failing to comply with the Committees’ duly authorized subpoenas. Conversely, the Committees’ need for Mr. Biden’s testimony is well-established pursuant to Congress’s constitutionally prescribed legislative and impeachment functions. By flagrantly defying the Committees’ subpoenas, Mr. Biden has violated federal law,” the accompanying report to the contempt resolution said.
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SOURCE: www.thehill.com
