Hunter Biden On Wednesday, he declined a request from House Republicans to testify publicly at a hearing next week, and his attorney described the planned panel as a “circus act.”
“Mr. Biden refuses your invitation To this carnival sideshow,” Abbe Lowell, an attorney for the president’s son, said in a letter to House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer, R-Ky.
Comer invited Biden to testify as part of the impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden on March 20. The hearing also calls for testimony from two former Hunter Biden business partners convicted of fraud and a third party called by the younger Biden. “incompetent” and “stupid”.
Lowell said in his letter that his client could not attend because he had to attend California court the next day, but “the scheduling conflict is the least of the issues.” He said the hearing was “not due process, but an obvious attempt to throw a Hail Mary pass after the game.”
Lowell noted that the Republican impeachment inquiry was blocked when he became an FBI informant center was their research accused of lying to the bureau About the Bidens.
In a statement, Comer mocked Biden’s response and said he still expects it to appear.
“Hunter Biden has said for months that he wants to hold public hearings, but now that he’s being offered along with his co-workers of years, he’s refusing to come,” Comer said, adding that the hearing is moving forward.
Hunter Biden was not subpoenaed to attend the hearing Comer announced last week. The hearing is called “Entrepreneurship of Influence: Investigating Joe Biden’s Abuse of Public Office,” and he is inviting former Hunter Biden co-workers Jason Galanis, Devon Archer and Tony Bobulinski, the watchdog chairman said.
It is unclear which of the witnesses will actually appear. A spokesman for the committee did not immediately respond to a request.
Galanis is serving 14 years in prison for a two million dollar fraud scheme. Archer was convicted in one of the schemes and sentenced to just over a year in prison, but has not yet begun serving his sentence.
Meanwhile, there’s Bobulinski and Hunter Biden they repeatedly trashed each other in public. Bobulinski told the committee during a deposition last month that the only reason Biden was able to make millions from various foreign sources was because his father was vice president at the time.
Hunter Biden testified before the committee behind closed doors last month, telling the panel that Bobulinski was a “bitter, bitter man” with an ax to grind for backing out of a business deal with him.
Hunter Biden, 54, also testified that the premise of the impeachment inquiry — that his father was involved in and profited from his business connections — was false. “My father was never involved in my business. I never asked my father to take care of my business. My father has never benefited from my business, and I have never asked anyone – or my father – to do anything for the benefit of anyone I do business with,” he said. transcript.
Lowell’s letter said his client would consider testifying publicly before the committee if the panel included “relatives of former President Trump.”
“If they schedule a legal hearing that includes Jared Kushner, Hunter will be there,” a source familiar with Hunter Biden’s legal strategy told NBC News.