Hunter Biden will sit for a closed-door interview on February 28, together with 5 Biden household associates at numerous dates, Home Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) and Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) introduced Thursday.
The announcement got here as a shock to some Republicans. Final week, the chairmen went via procedural hurdles to arrange for a Home vote to carry Hunter in contempt of Congress for failing to sit down for the deposition.
Hunter proposed final week to sit down for the deposition if Congress reissued a subpoena, arguing the prior subpoenas “are legally invalid” as a result of the impeachment inquiry “didn’t but exist when the subpoenas had been issued.”
The Republican chairmen initially accepted the provide however warned the Home would transfer ahead with contempt proceedings for this week.
The chairmen deemed Hunter’s provide to be one other delay tactic. Hunter’s provide additionally seemed to be a public relations ploy to offer Legal professional Common Merrick Garland with a cause to not prosecute him upon a profitable contempt vote.
After wrangling with Hunter’s legal professionals, Comer and Jordan modified their technique. They didn’t schedule a vote to carry Hunter in idea of Congress and agreed to a deposition.
“Hunter Biden will seem earlier than our committees for a deposition on February 28, 2024,” the chairmen stated in a press release obtained by Breitbart Information. “His deposition will come after a number of interviews with Biden relations and associates.”
Associates and the dates they’re to talk with the impeachment inquiry are:
- Week of January 22: Mervyn Yan — former prime CEFC China Power Co. official
- Week of January 22: Rob Walker — appearing “surrogate” for Hunter around the globe
- Week of January 29: “Moneyman” Eric Schwerin — household’s prime monetary lieutenant
- Week of January 29: Joey Langston — shut affiliate
- Week of February 5: Tony Bobulinski — former affiliate who confirmed the notorious message a couple of stake of “10 held by H for the massive man,” as referring to Joe Biden
Hunter is a fabric witness within the Home impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden. Home investigators launched the probe into the Biden household in November 2022. They revealed Joe Biden acquired cash from James Biden and Hunter Biden. Additionally they confirmed that 9 further Biden relations acquired funds from the household’s overseas enterprise ventures, together with two of Joe Biden’s grandchildren.
Extra proof in opposition to Joe Biden may be discovered right here and right here.
Wendell Husebo is a political reporter with Breitbart Information and a former GOP Struggle Room Analyst. He’s the writer of Politics of Slave Morality. Comply with Wendell on “X” @WendellHusebø or on Fact Social @WendellHusebo.
