The House Oversight Committee is holding a hearing on Wednesday GOP impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden will feature Hunter BidenFormer business partners Tony Bobulinski and Jason Galanis and former employee of Rudy Giuliani Leo Parnassus.
Parnas is a Ukrainian-American businessman who worked closely with former Trump lawyer Giuliani in 2018 and 2019. Find damaging information about Joe Bidenbegan his opening statement by condemning former President Donald Trump and his associates for what Parnas said were false allegations against the Biden family.
“The American people have been deceived by Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani and various individuals in government and media positions,” Parnas said in his opening remarks. “They created lies to serve their own interests because they knew it would undermine the strength of our nation.”
Parnas argued that there is no evidence of the Biden family’s corruption related to Ukraine and that the accusations against the president are baseless. It came from the Russian government.
“The only information that was insisted on about the Bidens and Ukraine came from one source and one source only: Russia and Russian agents,” he said, adding that the impeachment proceedings against Biden were “based on false information spread by the Kremlin.”
In it A written statement to CongressParnas also called former Trump Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif. and accused allies like Sen. Ron Johnson, as well as some prominent right-wing media figures, of spreading misinformation about the Bidens.
“Everyone who was an integral part of this shadow diplomacy knew that Biden’s corruption rumors were baseless,” Parnas said. “That’s when Congressman Devin Nunes, Senator Ron Johnson, and many others realized they were pushing a false narrative. The same goes for John Solomon, Sean Hannity, and media workers, especially Fox News, who are using it to manipulate the public in the run-up to the 2020 election. They are doing it today as we are approaching the 2024 elections.”
Parnassus had previously called on the Republican-led House Oversight Committee to end the investigation Delving into the Biden family, Speaker James Comer, R-Ky., said in a letter last year that there was no evidence implicating the president or his son Hunter Biden.
“Sincerely, Chairman Comer, the story you are seeking for this investigation has been proven time and time again by numerous reputable sources to be false,” Parnas wrote. “There is no point in investigating this matter further.”
the cooperating Parnassus Trump’s first impeachment inquiry entered into relations with Ukraine In 2021, he was convicted of fraud and campaign finance charges. He was He was sentenced to 20 months in prison and ordered to pay $2.3 million in restitution for the charges.
Hunter Biden and his former co-worker, Devon Archer, declined to appear at a public hearing of the Oversight Committee on Wednesday.
Abbe Lowell, Hunter Biden’s lawyer, condemned the scheduled hearing “Carnival Side Show” and said his client would appear only if the committee “sets a statutory hearing” that would include “relatives of former President Trump,” including son-in-law Jared Kushner.
in copy letter In a statement to House Oversight obtained by NBC News, Archer’s attorney, Matthew Schwartz, argued that his client did not have enough time to prepare for the hearing.
Rebecca Kaplan and Ryan Nobles contributed.