Comer says Hunter Biden’s attorney’s House hearing will happen ‘with or without’ him
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., told Hunter Biden’s lawyer, Abbot D. Lowell, on Friday that an Oversight Committee hearing on drug trafficking allegations The Biden family’s influence and business dealings would “continue — with or without Mr. Biden” next week, after Lowell said the president’s son would not attend.
Comer had invited Biden and associates Tony Bobulinski, Devon Archer and Jason Galanis will testify at a public hearing at 10 a.m. March 20.
But on Wednesday, Lowell said he would refuse the hearing, calling it and the investigation a “carnival spectacle.”
“Your egregious planned media event is not proper procedure but an obvious attempt to throw a Hail Mary pass after the game is over,” Lowell said, adding that Biden could not attend anyway because he is scheduled to be in California. for a hearing on March 21.
All four individuals have already testified behind closed doors as part of the impeachment inquiry – during which Hunter Biden repeatedly denied that his father, President Biden, was involved in his foreign trade deals — but Comer said the public hearing would “examine inconsistencies between witnesses.” “testimonies in order to obtain the truth for the American people.”
Lowell reminded Comer of a statement he made in January when he said, “All we need is for people to come in for the depositions and then we’ll be done.” We just need people to show up for depositions and we’ll finish this. No one wants to conclude this more than me.
Lowell told his client, the president’s son,
“You did exactly what you asked and, like you did when you announced that witnesses could choose their testimony, you want to ignore what you said.”
This is an excerpt from an article by Brie Stimson of Fox News.
