Hunter Biden will not attend a House Oversight Committee hearing next week regarding alleged influence peddling and the Biden family’s business dealings, his lawyer said in a letter Wednesday.
Committee Chairman James Comer had invited Hunter Biden and his former business associates – Tony Bobulinski, Devon Archer and Jason Galanis — to testify at a public hearing on March 20 as part of the ongoing impeachment inquiry against President Biden.
All four individuals have testified behind closed doors as part of the impeachment inquiry, but Comer said the hearing will “examine inconsistencies among the witnesses’ testimonies in order to get the truth for the American people.”
Comer said in a statement last Wednesday that “Evidence obtained in the House of Representatives’ impeachment inquiry reveals Joe Biden knew about, participated in, and benefited from his family cashing in on the Biden name.”
“Multiple witnesses have testified Joe Biden allowed his family to sell him as ‘the brand’ around the world to enrich the Biden family. Joe Biden met with nearly all of his son’s foreign business associates; attended dinners with foreign oligarchs who collectively funneled his son millions of dollars; spoke on speakerphone with his son’s foreign associates, telling those who did business with his son to be ‘good to my boy’; and had coffee with his son’s Chinese business associate.”
Comer said the Bidens’ “pay-to-play scheme is corrupt and Americans demand accountability.”
Hunter Biden did appear for a highly anticipated deposition in late Feburary before both the House Oversight and Judiciary committees and maintained that his father was never involved in and never benefited from his businesses.
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