Hunter Biden Agrees To Publicly Testify Before House Oversight Committee, But Republicans Refuse To Accept Offer

Hunter Biden said in a letter from his lawyer that he is willing to testify before a Republican-led House Oversight Committee on December 13.

Hunter was subpoenaed earlier this month to appear for a closed-door interview as part of Republican’s impeachment investigation into President Joe Biden.

“We have seen you use closed-door sessions to manipulate, even distort the facts and misinform the public,” wrote his lawyer Abbe Lowell to Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Kentucky) on Tuesday.

“Your Committee has been working for almost a year— without success— to tie our client’s business activities to his father,” said Lowell. “You state that one of your purposes is to review how a President’s family’s business activities raise ethics and disclosure concerns to inform the basis for a legislative solution.”

“But all your focus has been on this President’s family while turning a blind eye toward former President [Donald] Trump and his family’s businesses, some of which the family maintained while serving in office—an area ripe to inform your purported legislative pursuits,” Lowell continued.”

On Tuesday morning, Comer rejected Lowell’s argument in a statement on X, formerly Twitter.

“Hunter Biden is trying to play by his own rules instead of following the rules required of everyone else,” he wrote. “That won’t stand with the House Republicans.”

“Our lawfully issued subpoena to Hunter Biden requires him to appear for a deposition on December 13,” Comer continued. “We expect full cooperation with our subpoena for a deposition but also agree that Hunter Biden should have [an] opportunity to testify in a public setting at a future date.”

In response to Comer’s post, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Maryland) put out his own message on X.

“Let me get this straight,” the ranking member of the Oversight Committee said. “After wailing and moaning for ten months about Hunter Biden and alluding to some vast unproven family conspiracy, after sending Hunter Biden a subpoena to appear and testify, Chairman Comer and the Oversight Republicans now reject his offer to appear before the full Committee and the eyes of the world and to answer any questions that they pose?”

“Chairman Comer has now apparently decided to avoid all Committee hearings where the public can actually see for itself the logical, rhetorical and factual contortions they have tied themselves up in,” Raskin continued. “The evidence has shown time and time again that President Biden has committed no wrongdoing, much less an impeachable offense. Chairman Comer’s insistence that Hunter Biden’s interview should happen behind closed doors proves it once again.”

House Republicans are conducting an inquiry into the president’s activities, claiming that he and his son profited off of illegal business dealings and engaged in a bribery scheme.

They have obtained financial records that claim members of the Biden family set up more than 20 shell companies during Biden’s time as vice president to cover up payments from foreign adversaries. But they have not uncovered any evidence of illegal activity by the president.

Hunter recently sued Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani for illegally publishing the contents of his laptop.