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into his critics, suggested lawsuits against media, and even argued that the tax-exempt status of some groups be rescinded by the IRS.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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Whose insanity? Hunter or his lawyers?
If so, juxtaposes nicely with Big Guy's insanity offense used to govern from the WH.
Congress does not have the power to conduct criminal investigations of private citizens, I agree 100% with Hunter Biden’s lawyers on this, and any of you who think giving Congress this power is a good idea should admit you are no longer a constitutional conservative.
“ Last I saw, he said Congress had no standing to investigate him”
Which is 100% correct.
Yes, and Congress has absolute authority to investigate crimes committed by impeachable US officials - and as soon as proposed Articles are referred to an appropriate committees, THEN the House can issue a legal and enforceable subpoena to private citizen Hunter Biden - not before.
Obviously Hunter wouldn’t have any influence to peddle if he wasn’t the son of Joe so the investigation IS about Joe. I don’t think the Chinese or Ukrainians have any particular need to employ crackheads with pastimes of knocking up strippers. With the administration we have in charge now there’s absolutely no chance that Hunter or Joe will get charged and prosecuted with anything. We can hope, however, that it will reveal enough of their criminal activities that even the most hard core leftist mainstream news outlets won’t be able to cover it up like they did the existence of Hunters laptop before the election. At the very least the MSM and governments hold over Twitter has been broken so there’s one outlet that likely won’t participate in a cover up like they did before the election.
What a freaking joke. Hunter the drug addict will never serve time. I would not be surprised if he overdoses soon.
The president’s son is being investigated by the DOJ and a GOP-led House panel.
Maybe the Deep State will manage it this way: Have Brandon tell Hunter to go ahead and don't fight the conviction, with a promise that Daddy will issue a presidential pardon as soon as he's sentenced.
Hunter goes ahead, gets convicted and sentenced! But then POOF! Daddy's removed from the office as the Deep State goes ahead with the 25th Amendment.
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