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Hunter Biden just made Republicans' investigation a lot easier
Fox News ^ | 2/11/23 | Jonathan Turley

Posted on 02/11/2023 7:07:21 AM PST by Libloather

Hunter Biden’s legal team has been at the center of news coverage this month after it appeared to confirm the authenticity of his laptop in a letter (only to try to backtrack 24 hours later). It was a curious and gratuitous move for Biden and his counsel Abbe Lowell as they called for criminal investigations into his critics, suggested lawsuits against media, and even argued that the tax-exempt status of some groups be rescinded by the IRS.

Now, however, the team is moving in a far more precarious direction. They seem to be adopting the strategy of Steve Bannon that resulted in his conviction for contempt of Congress. Lowell categorically refused to turn over material to Congress this week, leaving his client open to a subpoena and possible prosecution. The move may have thrilled hardcore Democrats, but it is the Republicans who should be most ecstatic with Hunter's initial position.

Lowell has declared the oversight investigation in the Biden family's alleged influence peddling as illegitimate and has refused to turn over records related to its investigation. In a letter to House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY), Lowell declared "Peddling your own inaccurate and baseless conclusions under the guise of a real investigation, turns the Committee into ‘Wonderland’ and you into the Queen of Hearts shouting, ‘sentence first, verdict afterwords.’"

The move comes after news reports of a Democratic team forming around Hunter to attack potential witnesses and adopt a scorched earth approach in litigation. Even in personal matters, Hunter appears to be dispensing with his prior cultivation of a tragic and besieged figure. Recently, Hunter moved to block one of his daughters from using his surname.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; History; Local News
KEYWORDS: biden; guilty; hunter; investigation; turley
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Has anyone asked Hunter about any of this?
1 posted on 02/11/2023 7:07:21 AM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather

The DOJ will not prosecute Hunter for any future acts of contempt, or anything else.

Why would anyone expect them to?


2 posted on 02/11/2023 7:09:25 AM PST by The Free Engineer
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To: Libloather

It just keeps getting weirder.
Maybe Hunter’s lawyers are working towards an insanity defense? (And that was not sarcasm on my part.)


3 posted on 02/11/2023 7:12:13 AM PST by Honest Nigerian
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To: Libloather

Last I saw, he said Congress had no standing to investigate him.


4 posted on 02/11/2023 7:12:25 AM PST by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Libloather

He will get pardoned.


5 posted on 02/11/2023 7:14:44 AM PST by DainBramage
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To: Libloather

My hope is they’re only using the Hunter crimes to expose and prosecute the Criminal in Chief, his father.


6 posted on 02/11/2023 7:17:38 AM PST by JudyinCanada
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To: DainBramage

DOJ won’t prosecute him for anything.


7 posted on 02/11/2023 7:17:56 AM PST by Col Frank Slade
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To: The Free Engineer
"The failure to do so with Hunter Biden would fuel concerns
over political bias at the Department."

A laugh, quite late for that sentiment.

8 posted on 02/11/2023 7:23:51 AM PST by chief lee runamok (Anti Socialist Derelict At Large)
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To: Libloather

The “media” Dung beetles are really starting to worry about their boy, Bobby Biden aka Hunter. They’re doing everything they can to pull Bobby’s chestnuts out of the fire.


9 posted on 02/11/2023 7:24:17 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Remember what FJB Brandon said, "...more than half of the women in my administration are women.")
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To: DainBramage

A presidential pardon is a delicious consideration. It is a father’s love for his wayward son who is an apple found at the trunk of the tree from which it fell.


10 posted on 02/11/2023 7:32:51 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (We are not fit to live free but must be enslaved to control the chaos of our unfettered appetites.)
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Maybe they can get more to happen on hunter if they start adding the words bombshell and boom into the headlines


11 posted on 02/11/2023 7:33:57 AM PST by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: JudyinCanada

Dream on, the Biden criminal syndicate will be protected as long as there is a deep state to protect it, because prosecution would open Pandoras Box. It is te one thing that united left and right, Republican and Democrat. The politician who sincerely wants the Bidens prosecuted and isn’t just making safe political noise is the rare exception.


12 posted on 02/11/2023 7:43:55 AM PST by bigbob
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To: JudyinCanada
My hope is they’re only using the Hunter crimes to expose and prosecute the Criminal in Chief, his father.

That is the plan according to congressman Comer.

13 posted on 02/11/2023 8:05:39 AM PST by painter ( Isaiah: �Woe to those who call evil good and good evil,")
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To: Libloather

So who’s going to enforce the subpoenas? My guess is that it would be the same people that suppressed the laptop evidence in the first place.

Wouldn’t hold my hand over my ass waiting for that to happen . . .


14 posted on 02/11/2023 8:20:46 AM PST by MCSETots
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To: MCSETots

Nothing will ever happen to him.


15 posted on 02/11/2023 8:22:20 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Libloather

The Biden crime family is getting more nerves a lot of new information in the light now and building.

The big guy’s power is fading at a faster pace the IRS may not release some records but others will the Biden’s left paper trails all over the place.

The others they have exposed in the gig not happy at all.


16 posted on 02/11/2023 8:23:21 AM PST by Vaduz (LAWYERS )
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To: JudyinCanada

“My hope is they’re only using the Hunter crimes to expose and prosecute the Criminal in Chief, his father.”

Right from the start House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) said this is about JOE Biden. In the original press announcement he stated over and over again that this investigation is about JOE BIDEN not Hunter Biden.

Hunter Biden (not a target of this investigation) has EVIDENCE and knowledge that is “material” to this investigation.


17 posted on 02/11/2023 8:36:31 AM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: Libloather

Interesting and totally predictable, always have to throw in some conservative that was punished by the deep state, ie, Steve Bannon.


18 posted on 02/11/2023 9:09:43 AM PST by New Perspective (As Leonard Cohen said once in an interview, “You won’t like what comes after America”)
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To: Libloather
The move comes after news reports of a Democratic team forming around Hunter to attack potential witnesses and adopt a scorched earth approach in litigation.

The "By Any Means Necessary" Party ALWAYS plays smashmouth.

19 posted on 02/11/2023 9:33:27 AM PST by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Libloather

By suing the people who disclosed his laptop, he for all practical purposes, admitted that the laptop is his.


20 posted on 02/11/2023 10:01:36 AM PST by AZJeep
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