The Republicans on the House Oversight Committee issued a series of subpoenas on Wednesday demanding depositions from First Son Hunter Biden, as well as other family members and business associates of President Joe Biden. The subpoenas were issued as a part of the Committee’s ongoing impeachment inquiry against the president, alleging that members of the Biden family have spent years engaged in an influence-peddling scheme for personal profit.
In a video shared by the Committee on Wednesday, House Oversight Chairman and lead impeachment investigator James Comer (R-KY) signed three subpoenas for Hunter Biden, the president’s younger brother James Biden, and Rob Walker, a former business associate of the Biden family.
🚨BREAKING🚨
Today, @RepJamesComer signed subpoenas for:
◼️ Hunter Biden
◼️ James Biden
◼️ Rob Walker pic.twitter.com/fuS3yR9r8z
According to images of the signed subpoenas, the three men have been called on to provide depositions between late November and mid-December.
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“The House Oversight Committee has followed the money and built a record of evidence revealing how Joe Biden knew, was involved, and benefited from his family’s influence peddling schemes,” said a statement from Comer. “Now, the House Oversight Committee is going to bring in members of the Biden family and their associates to question them on this record of evidence.”
Comer continued by highlighting newly obtained evidence further proving the Biden family’s alleged crime.
“Unlike the many lies President Biden told the American people about his family’s business schemes, bank records don’t lie,” he added. “These records reveal how the Bidens sold Joe Biden around to the world to benefit the Biden family, including Joe Biden himself, to the detriment of U.S. interests. The House Oversight Committee, along with the Committees on Judiciary and Ways and Means, will continue to follow the facts and deliver the transparency and accountability that the American people demand and deserve.”
The Oversight Committee also requested transcribed interviews from James Biden’s wife Sara Biden; President Biden’s daughter-in-law Hallie Biden, the widow of his son Beau and, later on, Hunter’s romantic partner; Hallie Biden’s older sister Elizabeth Secundy; Hunter’s current wife Melissa Cohen; and Hunter’s friend and business partner Tony Bobulinski.
Additional subpoenas and interview requests are expected later this week, with Comer stating that the impeachment inquiry against President Biden has reached its “downhill phase” and will be wrapped up quickly.
The inquiry launched by House Republicans in September under the supervision of then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy alleges that Biden and his family and friends created a “culture of corruption” to capitalize on Biden’s political connections and peddle their “brand” internationally.
According to family financial records obtained by the Committee earlier this year, multiple Biden family members and associates received a combined $1 million from accounts related to Rob Walker’s LLC. Hallie Biden, for example, received $25,000 in 2017, when Walker was working with a Chinese energy company on a joint American venture. Another suspicious transaction saw a check for $200,000 transferred from James to Joe in 2018 for a “loan repayment” on the same day that James received that exact amount from a healthcare business.
President Biden and his allies have maintained their innocence, claiming that the inquiry is completely unjustified. A 12-page letter from Hutner Biden’s attorney Abbe Lowell sent to new House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Wednesday urged him to use his “newly minted leadership post responsibly” and to “think twice” about stoking the “spectacle” of the inquiry.
“Restore the integrity and reputation of your chamber,” Lowell urged. “This can begin with your holding Chairmen Comer, Jordan, and Smith to the facts and stopping them from continuing their partisan political games. The latest example of their hoping to do the opposite is ripe for your intervention.”
Johnson, who became Speaker less than a month ago, committed to not “predetermining” an outcome to the inquiry process, but believes that “very soon we are coming to a point of decision on it.”
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