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Hunter Biden refuses to testify at James Comer's public listening to and suggests investigating Jared Kushner and Trump for affect peddling.
CNN reported that Hunter Biden rejected Comer's supply to testify publicly via a lawyer in a letter to Home Oversight Committee Chairman Comer:
The legal professional, Abbey Lovell, argued that the listening to was “not a severe oversight continuing.” That is your try and revive your convention's moribund investigation with a right-wing-media circus act.”
Calling the invitation a “Hail Mary go,” Lowell wrote: “I believed you’ll additionally acknowledge that your baseless impeachment proceedings have ended.”
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In his letter, Lowell additionally criticized Comer's determination to ask some disgraced enterprise associates related to the president's son to the identical listening to. He argued that if Comer was severe about holding an oversight listening to to deal with alleged affect peddling, the committee ought to invite Jared Kushner and Trump members of the family together with Hunter Biden.
The allegations of affect peddling on the Trump household are prone to be investigated after the Democrats return to the Home. In the meantime, Comer goes to attempt to resurrect his lifeless within the type of Dornell Biden impeachment with a public listening to that may embrace all the identical discredited names and faces that Republicans have been insisting on for greater than a yr.
Comer has but to return ahead with a single witness who can testify that President Biden dedicated an impeachable offense. The Home Republican recreation has gone past tedious. Lifeless impeachment wants to finish.
Hunter Biden and his legal professionals have been proper.
If Chair Comer is severe about investigating somebody accused of exerting affect over a president's member of the family, then Jared Kushner, who labored within the Trump administration, is strolling round in Saudi Arabia with $2 billion in money and numerous unanswered questions. .
Republicans would reasonably concentrate on Hunter Biden and his work than acknowledge the corruption that occurred throughout Donald Trump's presidency.
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