Oversight Committee President James Comer invited the President Joe Biden has testify publicly in the struggle Home Republican indictment investigation.
This comes after the president’s son, Hunter Bidentestified behind closed doors, but didn’t give Republicans what they wanted – they have yet to find evidence that the president benefited financially from his family’s foreign business dealings during his tenure as vice president.
Mr. Comer invited Mr. Biden to appear on April 16, an invitation he is very unlikely to accept.
“I invite you to participate in a public hearing during which you will have the opportunity to explain, under oath, your involvement in your family’s sources of income and the means they used to generate it,” he said. said Mr. Comer. wrote in a letter of more than seven pages. “As you know, presidents before you have testified before congressional committees, including Chairman Ford’s testimony before the Subcommittee on Criminal Justice of the House Judiciary Committee in 1974.”
According to the Senate Historical Office, presidents have testified a total of three times.
On March 20, when Mr. Comer indicated he would invite Mr. Biden, White House spokesman Ian Sams said: “Comer knows that more than 20 witnesses have testified that POTUS did nothing wrong. He knows that the hundreds of thousands of pages of documents he received have refuted his false allegations. It’s a sad affair at the end of a deadly impeachment. Stop it, buddy.
On Thursday, the Democratic Oversight Committee wrote on The GOP impeachment inquiry has been a circus. It’s time to fold the tent.
The impeachment inquiry suffered another setback when the special counsel, appointed by former President Donald Trump, who is investigating Hunter Biden, indicted a former FBI informant for allegedly lying about the president and Hunter Biden having each received $5 million in bribes from a Ukrainian energy company.
Last month, Hunter Biden said his father was never involved in his business dealings. He declined to testify publicly this month.
In a letter to Mr. Comer, Hunter Biden’s lawyer, Abbe Lowell, wrote: “Your blatant media event is not proper procedure but a clear attempt to throw a Hail Mary pass after the end of the match. »