Hunter Biden has been scheduled to appear before the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability and the House Committee on Judiciary.
In a statement released jointly on Thursday, Committee Chairmen James Comer and Jim Jordan (R. Ohio) stated that Hunter Biden would appear before their committees to give a deposition in February 2024. His deposition will follow several interviews with Biden associates and family members. “We look forward to Hunter Biden’s testimony.”
Last week, two House committees voted to send to the entire House a resolution holding Hunter Biden in contempt. Biden’s lawyers then begged for another opportunity to comply with the congressional subpoena.
If you issue a proper subpoena now that an impeachment investigation has been duly authorized, Mr. Biden would be willing to attend a hearing or a deposition. Abbe Lowell wrote to Comer and Jordan that we would accept a subpoena in Mr. Biden’s name.
Hunter was given the chance to vote by the House, but for whatever reason they chose not to hold a full House vote.
Hunter Biden’s legal team had claimed previously that the embattled First Son only would testify at a public hearing to try to dictate the terms for his deposition. Lowell then decided to declare this week that these subpoenas are “legally invalid” because they were issued before the formalization of the impeachment investigation into Joe Biden.
Comer and Jordan mocked Lowell for his ever-changing excuses.
Comer and Jordan wrote to Lowell in response to the letter they received on January 12, 2024. The letter indicated that Robert Hunter Biden was willing to take a deposition under the House’s ongoing impeachment investigation and the legislative oversight powers of the Committee on the Judiciary and the Committee on Oversight and Accountability. “To be clear: contrary to your assertions and for reasons explained below the subpoenas that were issued to Mr. Biden respectively on November 8th and 9th are legal and enforceable. Mr. Biden does not claim any valid constitutional or legal privilege that would excuse him from complying to these subpoenas. The Committees won’t give Mr. Biden any special treatment.”
The Committees welcomed Mr. Biden’s renewed willingness to testify under subpoena in a deposition.” They continued. The Committee’s subpoenas remain legal and enforceable. However, at Mr. Biden’s request and as an accommodation, we will issue subpoenas requiring Mr. Biden to appear at a deposition at a new time in the next few weeks. The Committees do not believe that your assertions from the letter of January 12 are valid. We are willing to issue subpoenas because we want Mr. Biden to testify as quickly as possible.
I can’t understand why the House didn’t vote in full to find Hunter in contempt. There’s no reason to think that Hunter would not have been found guilty of contempt by Congress, since the House voted to formalize the investigation into Joe Biden’s impeachment.
