WASHINGTON DC (WSAU) – The House Oversight Committee on Monday proposed a resolution suggesting that Hunter Biden be held in contempt of Congress for his defiance of their previously issued subpoena.
According to the Post Millennial, the committee laid out its case against the president’s son in the resolution, calling his “blatant disregard” of their Dec. 13 subpoena “contemptuous” and “unlawful.” Biden was summoned as part of the impeachment inquiry into his father, President Joe Biden.
“The Committees have accumulated significant evidence suggesting that President Biden knew of, participated in, and profited from his son’s foreign business interests, about which the Committees intended to question Mr. Biden during his deposition,” the Commission wrote. commission in a press release. .
The statement goes on to say, “However, Mr. Biden brazenly defied committee subpoenas, choosing to read a prepared statement outside the Capitol instead of appearing for a deposition as the subpoenas require . Mr. Biden’s willful refusal to comply with committee subpoenas constitutes contempt of Congress and warrants referral to the appropriate United States Attorney’s Office for prosecution in accordance with law.
In 2022, Fox News revealed that Joe Biden, as vice president in the Obama administration, met with at least fourteen associates of his son, who gained notoriety for using his father’s political positions and name of the Biden family to promote his business interests. as well as his uncle Jim Biden.