House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer said the impeachment inquiry against President Biden will move into its “next phase” including a public hearing with Hunter Biden testifying.
However, Hunter Biden’s lawyer cast doubt on this, saying the transcripts from previous witnesses made it clear there was nothing left to ask.
“The transcripts of witnesses who have been called to date, including Hunter’s, makes it obvious that there is nothing left to ask, answer, say or do. This illegitimate inquiry should have ended long before their star witness was indicted for lying but it wasn’t. Now that Hunter has put this partisan conspiracy to the lie that it is – on the record and under oath – this political charade should finally come to an end,” attorney Abbe Lowell said.
Hunter Biden testified in a closed-door deposition that he did not involve his father Joe Biden in any business dealings.
He denied allegations related to an infamous email referencing “the big guy.”
Hunter “first made clear in his opening statement and emphasized throughout the deposition, Joe Biden was not involved in, did not benefit from, and took no official actions to benefit any of his business ventures,” an inside source stated.
“Hunter discussed his addiction at length,” the source said, adding that Hunter “admitted that he was high or drunk when he sent the ‘sitting here with my father’ WhatsApp message, sent it to the wrong recipient, and is now embarrassed by the message.”
Comer said the deposition revealed contradictory statements that need further review and a public hearing would help clear them up.
Hunter Biden’s lawyer maintained the inquiry should end, however, while Comer said he looked forward to releasing transcripts and the public hearing.
Comer said the deposition “proves several bits of our evidence that we’ve been conducting throughout this investigation.”
He added that “there are also some contradictory statements that I think need further review.”
“So this impeachment inquiry will now go to the next phase, which will be a public hearing,” Comer said.
“Just as I said, when we said we were going to do the deposition first, we will have a public hearing next,” Comer said. “So 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.”
“Hunter is eager to have the opportunity, in a public forum and at the right time, to discuss these matters with the Committee,” Lowell said in November of 2023.
Comer said “all in all,” he is “very optimistic, very excited about this deposition.”
“I look forward to releasing the transcripts as soon as both sides agree to that,” Comer said. “Hopefully that’ll be within the next 2 or 3 days.”
Hunter Biden said he was present “to provide the Committees with the one uncontestable fact that should end the false premise of this inquiry: I did not involve my father in my business.”
“Not while I was a practicing lawyer, not in my investments or transactions domestic or international, not as a board member, and not as an artist. Never,” he said. “You do not have evidence to support the baseless and MAGA-motivated conspiracies about my father because there isn’t any.”
Hunter said he hopes the testimony will “put an end to this baseless and destructive political charade.”
“You have wasted valuable time and resources attacking me and my family for your own political gain when you should be fixing the real problems in this country that desperately need your attention,” he said.
The House Oversight Committee said it was now able to “confirm Joe Biden met with nearly every foreign national who funneled money to his son.”
