WASHINGTON — Hunter Biden gave the “middle finger” to Congress by refusing to appear for a deposition this week — while the former Justice Department official charged with protecting the first son and President Biden in a criminal investigation “didn’t answer a lot of questions,” House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer said. on Friday.
Hunter, 53, gave a speech Wednesday outside the Capitol instead of appearing to testify before the Oversight Committee — claiming his father was not “financially involved” with his foreign business dealings, despite evidence Joe Biden met with partners at many of Hunter’s major international ventures. from countries like China and Ukraine.
“We have over a dozen members of Congress of both parties there, we have dozens of staff there, we have tens of thousands of pages of documents, hundreds of specific questions and he just came out and basically gave Congress the middle finger, ” Comer told Fox News’ “America’s Newsroom.”
First son Hunter Biden gave Congress the “middle finger” by refusing to appear Wednesday for the deposition, said House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer. Getty Images
“[He] came out and said he wanted to make a statement and hold a press conference. Then when he finished making a statement asking for mercy, then he drove off in his car and didn’t answer any questions,” added Comer.
“Just because the DOJ, the IRS, the FBI and every other government agency should be arresting people like Hunter Biden for the crimes that people like Hunter Biden committed, that doesn’t mean we’re going to turn a blind eye and treat him differently. He will be treated the same as anyone else.”
Comer answered “yes” when asked if he would seek contempt of Congress charges, which would lead to a possible House floor vote to refer the matter to President Biden’s Justice Department, which would decide whether or not to prosecute the alleged crimes. .
The Justice Department recently won convictions against former advisers to President Donald Trump, Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro for both violating subpoenas from a House select committee investigating the Capitol riots on January 6, 2021.
Bannon was sentenced to four months in prison and Navarro, who will be sentenced next month, faces at least two months in prison.
Judiciary Committee Chairman Comer, right, and House Jim Jordan, left, lead the impeachment inquiry into President Biden over corruption allegations. Bonnie Cash/UPI/Shutterstock
Delaware’s former assistant US attorney Lesley Wolf appeared Thursday before the House Judiciary Committee but did not say much, Comer added.
“It is my understanding that he did not answer many questions in that deposition,” he said.
Wolf is a central figure in the Justice Department’s alleged cover-up of a criminal investigation of Hunter Biden for tax fraud and related crimes, such as alleged foreign lobbying registration violations.
Wolf repeatedly prevented investigators from looking at Joe Biden’s role in foreign earnings, despite messages directly implicating him, and allegedly told Hunter’s legal team to search the storage unit and planned interview approaches, damaging both efforts, according to IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler.
Comer says that Republicans intend to discredit Hunter Biden, which could result in new criminal charges. AP
In addition to possible new contempt charges, Hunter Biden faces federal tax fraud charges in Los Angeles and gun charges in Delaware — after abandoning a probation-only plea deal in July when demanding courtroom assurances that he has immunity from other possible crimes, such as as a violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act, which would implicate his father.
The generous plea deal, which critics criticized as a “sweetheart” arrangement, was announced in June after Shapley and Ziegler alleged preferential treatment and misleading testimony to Congress involving the case.
The eldest son’s refusal to testify to the Oversight Committee came hours before the House of Representatives formally voted to authorize the impeachment inquiry into President Biden that began on September 12 without a floor vote.
All Republicans voted in favor and all Democrats opposed.
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