WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s son Hunter advised Republicans on Wednesday that his father by no means participated in his overseas enterprise offers and that claims on the contrary are all lies.
The youthful Biden arrived on Capitol Hill for a closed-door deposition in response to a subpoena from congressional Republicans chasing doubtful corruption allegations of their impeachment inquiry in opposition to the president.
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“I am here today to provide the committees with the one uncontestable fact that should end the false premise of this inquiry: I did not involve my father in my business,” Hunter Biden mentioned in a gap assertion. “Not while I was a practicing lawyer, not in my investments or transactions domestic or international, not as a board member, and not as an artist. Never.”
Hunter Biden is probably going the final main witness Republicans will interview as a part of their impeachment effort, which can by no means get a vote on the House ground because of lack of unanimous assist from Republicans themselves as corruption claims have crumbled underneath scrutiny.
The principal allegation in opposition to the Bidens got here from an FBI informant who claimed a Ukrainian businessman mentioned he paid Biden and his son Hunter $5 million every in bribes. Republicans scoured Biden financial institution information in quest of the bribe, nevertheless it seems the informant might not have been a dependable supply.
Earlier this month, the Department of Justice arrested the informant and accused him of constructing up the bribe, leaving Republicans with a seize bag of much less critical allegations in opposition to the Biden household. The principal one is that Joe Biden participated in his son’s overseas enterprise offers whereas he was vp and when he was out of workplace.
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“Our committees have uncovered substantial evidence of President Biden and his family’s corruption,” House Oversight Committee chair James Comer (R-Ky.) advised reporters earlier than the deposition.
Devon Archer, a former enterprise associate of Hunter Biden’s, advised lawmakers that the youthful Biden repeatedly put his father on speakerphone within the firm of their shoppers, prompting Republicans to say the president lied when he claimed he was by no means concerned in his son’s work — although Archer mentioned the conversations had been by no means about enterprise. Archer and a parade of different Hunter Biden associates additionally mentioned they by no means witnessed Joe Biden really speak enterprise or take motion on his son’s behalf.
“Rather than follow the facts as they have been laid out before you in bank records, financial statements, correspondence, and other witness testimony, you continue your frantic search to prove the lies you, and those you rely on, keep peddling,” Hunter Biden mentioned Wednesday. “Yes, they are lies.”