C-SPAN went Skinemax Wednesday when one member of Congress showed explicit photos of Hunter Biden’s first child and another said former President Donald Trump was guilty of inducing an “erection.”
The embarrassing sideline came as the House Oversight and Judiciary committees separately debated holding Hunter, 53, in contempt for defying a subpoena requiring him to appear on Dec. 13 for testimony about President Biden’s role in foreign business ventures.
“[These are] images that were produced and uploaded by Hunter Biden to pornographic websites,” said Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) during an Oversight Committee hearing, holding a poster board with four photos from Hunter’s abandoned laptop.
“And it is marked, this is marked showing evidence [anti-prostitution] A violation of the Mann Act,” Greene said of the Democrats’ objection. “Democrats shouldn’t be offended by a dark picture, they should be offended by real human trafficking.”
One photo shows a woman cupping President Biden’s grown son’s penis, although the actual body part is covered by a black box on the poster.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene holds a nude photo of President Biden’s son Hunter at a House Oversight Committee hearing on January 10, 2024. C-SPAN
A few hours before that, in the Judiciary Committee, Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), made a Freudian slip while trying to avoid discussion of President Biden’s interactions with his son and his ally James Biden from China, Ukraine and other countries.
“If we’re going to talk about outrageous things that have happened or things that have never happened, let’s talk about the fact that President Trump incited an erection,” the Progressive Caucus chairman said, before laughing to indicate he had misspoken.
“Maybe that too!” Jayapal was quick to add.
The mistake was previously made by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) ahead of Trump’s Senate trial after the House of Representatives impeached the 45th president for allegedly inciting his supporters to storm the Capitol on January 6, 2021, to disrupt the certification of Biden’s Electoral College victory.
“You can talk about that, too, I guess,” Rep. Dan Bishop (R-NC) laughingly told Jayapal.
“Perhaps we should talk about that too,” he replied, before continuing, “the president incited a rebellion -.”
Hunter Biden appeared briefly at the Oversight Committee hearing, angering Republicans, but left after about 17 minutes and did not make a cameo before the Judiciary panel.
Greene claimed that the photo was “produced and uploaded to a pornographic website” by Hunter Biden. REUTERS/Nathan Howard
Greene previously angered Democrats by displaying a similar image at a committee hearing in July. In both cases, the actual sex acts were hidden, even though the context of the photos made it clear what they were depicting.
“It’s not pornography, it’s properly censored evidence,” Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) told outraged ranking member Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) on Wednesday.
“This is not ‘The Jerry Springer Show!’ shouted Raskin at one point in response.
Hunter Biden makes an appearance at a House Oversight Committee hearing. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
A majority of Republicans on the committee voted to allow the photographs to become official records.
Comer argued that the image was related to the impeachment inquiry into the Biden family’s alleged corruption because possible sex-trafficking charges were considered by authorities as part of a long-running investigation, according to two IRS whistleblowers who claimed cover-ups to protect Joe and Hunter Biden.
Greene said that “I am deeply offended by the women on this committee who do not care about these women’s rights — they are victims of Hunter Biden.”
“If that was in the books, he would censor it,” Raskin said, “but he wants to advertise it through the House of Representatives.”
Greene said the photo is evidence that Biden violated the Mann Act. AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana
During the debate, Raskin said he wanted access to Hunter’s laptop files, which have been in the FBI’s possession since 2019 and whose contents were first reported by The Post in late 2020 and published in searchable form in 2022 by the conservative nonprofit Marco Polo.
“Will you make the laptop available to the Democrats so we can look at it?” Raskin asked, adding, “we don’t know who made the picture.”
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) chimed in, “I can give you a copy,” citing the publication of Marco Polo’s record.
“That might be something good to read,” Comer said, adding: “You spend a lot of time investigating former presidents and you don’t spend time on this. You are all three or four steps behind.”
Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) then tried to redirect the hearing to focus on Trump by showing a large photo of the former president with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
When Republicans objected to the image, Raskin shot back: “Are you going to accept obscene pictures?”
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