President Joe Biden’s eldest son, Hunter Biden, has turned down an invitation from House Republicans to testify at a public hearing, contradicting his previous requests for such a hearing.
The decision was conveyed on Wednesday by Biden’s lawyer, Abbe David Lowell, who expressed his client’s opposition to the previously sought-after event in a letter obtained by The Daily Caller.
“In your blatantly media-focused event, you are not conducting a proper proceeding but rather making an obvious attempt to throw a Hail Mary pass after the game has ended. Allow me to remind you of a statement you made regarding how witnesses—and specifically Mr. Biden—could fulfill your previous requests,” wrote Abbe David Lowell.
“At your press conference following the Committee hearing on January 10, 2024, to hold Mr. Biden in contempt, you stated: ‘All we need are people to come in for the depositions and then we’ll be finished. We just need people to show up to the depositions and we’ll wrap this up. Nobody wants to wrap this up more than I do.’ Mr. Biden complied with your request, and yet, as you did when you announced that witnesses could choose depositions, you now want to ignore what you said,” Lowell added.
Lowell insisted that a condition for Biden’s attendance at the public hearing was an investigation into former President Donald Trump’s family business dealings by the House Republicans.
A source informed The Daily Caller about the sequence of receiving the letter.
“We just received it. They gave it to Punchbowl before providing it to Congress,” the source familiar said.
In response to the letter, Congressman Comer accused Hunter Biden of avoiding transparency.
“The House Oversight Committee has called Hunter Biden’s bluff. Hunter Biden stated for months that he wanted a public hearing, but now that one has been offered alongside his business associates with whom he worked for years, he is refusing to come … The American people demand the truth and accountability for the Bidens’ corruption,” Comer stated.
The controversy stems from a subpoena issued by the House Oversight Committee in November, aimed at scrutinizing Hunter Biden’s foreign business transactions. Despite this, Biden opted for a public statement outside the Capitol, diverging from the scheduled closed-door deposition.
During a deposition on February 28, Hunter Biden reiterated that he “did not recall” specific details of his foreign business engagements. However, he firmly stated his father’s non-involvement.
“I am here today to provide the committees with the one uncontestable fact that should end the false premise of this inquiry: I did not involve my father in my business, not while I was a practicing lawyer, not in my investments or transactions, domestic or international, not as a board member, and not as an artist, never,” Hunter Biden remarked in his opening testimony.
