Posted on 02/28/2024 5:00:35 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
House lawmakers announced that they would hold a public hearing in the “next phase” of their impeachment inquiry into President Biden after his son Hunter Biden provided testimony on Wednesday.
“I think that the public hearing hopefully will clear up some discrepancies between some of the statements that were made between some of the associates and what we heard today,” said House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer, the Kentucky Republican leading the impeachment inquiry.
Mr. Comer said the president’s son provided contradictory statements.
“So, this impeachment inquiry will now go to the next phase, which will be a public hearing,” he said.
Hunter Biden accused the Republicans leading the inquiry of taking emails they obtained from him and his associates out of context and cherry-picking other information to create a false narrative that Mr. Biden engaged in influence peddling.
Hunter Biden, 54, testified for seven hours on Capitol Hill. He told lawmakers that they distorted facts, relied on lying witnesses and engaged in sensationalism to falsely accuse his father of illegally participating in his foreign business deals.
The president’s son appeared under subpoena at the closed-door deposition. Lawmakers said he provided answers that conflicted with the testimony of other witnesses about the extent of his father’s involvement in deals that netted the family and associates more than $20 million.
He did not speak to reporters after the deposition, but his opening statement was leaked.
“For more than a year, your committees have hunted me in your partisan political pursuit of my dad. You have trafficked in innuendo, distortion, and sensationalism — all the while ignoring the clear and convincing evidence staring you in the face. You do not have evidence to support the baseless and MAGA-motivated conspiracies about my father because there isn’t any,” Hunter Biden said in...
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“Just as illegal immigration crisis is boiling over on national TV, let’s have them broadcast Hunter Biden instead as we fall on our face. People are sick of seeing this drug addict. They know the entire family is corrupt. I don’t recall primary voters ranking this in their Top 5 concerns.”
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Agree 100%. WTF would they go down impeachment road and give Biden and the media a talking point that republicans are playing politics? When your adversary is making a jackass of themselves.... you get the hell off the stage and let it happen. We have an election in 8 months and the republicans want to find a way to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Maybe we can also send Linda out to announce a bill to make abortion a capital federal crime too. SMH
All of this Hunter Biden stuff is interesting, but how about impeaching Biden for violating the SCOTUS ruling on student loan forgiveness. Can he not be impeached on those grounds? I mean...the Republicans would have the backing of the Supreme Court on that issue.
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