House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) said on Wednesday that the chamber’s impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden is moving into its “next phase” which will likely include public testimony from first son Hunter Biden.
However, after Hunter testified behind closed doors on Capitol Hill on Wednesday before the Oversight and Judiciary committees, his attorney, Abbe Lowell, appeared to cast doubt on any public testimony.
“The transcripts of witnesses who have been called to date, including Hunter’s, makes it obvious that there is nothing left to ask, answer, say or do. This illegitimate inquiry should have ended long before their star witness was indicted for lying but it wasn’t. Now that Hunter has put this partisan conspiracy to the lie that it is – on the record and under oath – this political charade should finally come to an end,” he told reporters.
Fox News reported:
The first son testified that he “did not involve” his father in his businesses, while blasting House Republicans for having “hunted” him in a “partisan political pursuit” and impeachment inquiry against his father. He also said Republicans have no evidence against his father, the president, “because there isn’t any.”
A number of other witnesses who were former associates of the Bidens, however, have testified under oath that indeed, Joe Biden’s name was invoked and appearances by him were made ahead of or during business deals and that Hunter was “selling” his father’s political influence.
A source with direct knowledge of Hunter’s testimony told Fox News Digital that he “first made clear in his opening statement and emphasized throughout the deposition, Joe Biden was not involved in, did not benefit from, and took no official actions to benefit any of his business ventures.”
Regarding the infamous “10 held by H for the big guy?” email, Hunter claimed that his associate who sent the message, James Gilliar, was “out of his mind for even suggesting Joe Biden get involved in their joint venture.”
The message was sent to a business partner for Chinese energy firm CEFC, Fox News noted.
“Hunter discussed his addiction at length,” the source said, adding that Hunter “admitted that he was high or drunk when he sent the ‘sitting here with my father’ WhatsApp message, sent it to the wrong recipient, and is now embarrassed by the message.”
