Republican chairmen leading the House impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden claim that the White House and National Archives are withholding drafts of a 2015 speech by then Vice President Joe Biden in Ukraine.
This speech coincided with Hunter Biden’s involvement with Burisma and a prosecutor’s investigation.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith wrote in a letter, “For more than five months the White House has declined to authorize the production of these draft speeches to the Oversight Committee or to assert a valid privilege over them. Such a lengthy delay in processing a discrete and limited category of documents is unacceptable and appears to represent an attempt to obstruct the Committees’ legitimate investigation. These dilatory tactics must cease, and the White House must permit NARA to release these documents forthwith.”
🚨 BREAKING 🚨
The White House is REFUSING to hand over early drafts of President Biden’s 2015 Ukraine speech where he called for the firing of the Ukrainian prosecutor, Viktor Shokin.
These drafts are important as it is believed, based on public reporting, that the then-VP… pic.twitter.com/HXuUkVGBAM
— Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) January 31, 2024
“If the White House does not permit the production of these documents, the Oversight Committee will consider the use of compulsory process to require the White House’s production of the speeches,” the letter continued.
“Pursuant to federal law, the Oversight Committee may request from NARA presidential records from former administrations, and those records must be made available to the Committee…subject to any rights, defenses, or privileges which the United States or any agency or person may invoke,” wrote the lawmakers.
“This White House has previously permitted NARA to provide Congress with presidential records related to the Trump Administration after only one month of White House review. We expect the White House to do the same in this instance,” the chairmen added.
The chairmen are pressing the White House to release the documents by February 7, 2024, citing federal law.
They argue that the White House previously permitted NARA to provide Congress with presidential records related to the Trump Administration after only one month of review and expect the same cooperation in this instance.
Additionally, individuals connected to Hunter Biden’s business and Joe Biden’s family have been interviewed as part of the ongoing impeachment inquiry.
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