Republicans wanted Hunter Biden. He came. |
Robert Hunter Biden, the last surviving son of President Joe Biden was held in contempt of Congress. He was not phased by the noise of the Republican Party because he showed up to listen to the theatrics of insufferable members Rep. James Comer (R-KY), Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), Rep. Mark Green (R-TN), Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ), Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) and the one any only laziest, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).
Biden appeared at the House Oversight Committee to troll Republicans who voted on Wednesday to hold him in contempt. Biden said he wanted to testify in public which Republicans agreed to at first. They ended up wanting him to testify in closed door meeting but Biden didn't attend.
The move sparked outrage from Republicans, who've issued a congressional subpoena for him to sit for a closed-door deposition in their ongoing impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. The president's son has said he would testify only in a public forum, and previously castigated the probe as "illegitimate."
His arrival plunged the proceeding into chaos.
Comer and Republicans members voted to hold him accountable.
This farce continues as Biden had to listen to shrieking white women yelling to him about his laptop, white privilege and corruption.
Biden has no formal role in the U.S. government nor he works with his father.
All of these antics were click bait for Fox and especially Sean "Softball" Hannity.
The so called smart one, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC). |
Greene, Mace, Jordan and Comer got their click-bait.
Hunter Biden made his way into the hearing amid opening statements and took a seat in the front row. He was accompanied by his lawyer Abbe Lowell and Kevin Morris, a confidant and friend who helped Hunter Biden pay back taxes and penalties to the IRS.
Hunter Biden left a short time after, when the chairman called on Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to speak.
"Excuse me, Hunter, apparently you're afraid of my words," Greene said.
Lowell spoke to the press outside the hearing room, though Hunter Biden ignored shouted questions.
"Hunter Biden was and is a private citizen. Despite this, Republicans have sought to use him as a surrogate to attack his father," Lowell said.
Lowell accused Republicans of caring "little about the truth" and trying to "hold someone in contempt who has offered to publicly answer all their proper questions."
Ahead of Wednesday's hearing, the Oversight Committee released a 19-page report recommending he be held in contempt of Congress, as well as the text of the proposed resolution.
Insufferable Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA). |
Biden has acknowledged he used drugs and had a tumultuous relationship with his family. He had hit rock bottom. He said his father and mother helped him get through this. Republicans see it as a weakness.
“You’re the epitome of white privilege, coming into the Oversight Committee, spitting in our face, ignoring a congressional subpoena to be deposed,” Mace said to Biden. “What are you afraid of?”
A heated back and forth between Mace and Florida Democratic Rep. Jared Moskowitz ensued, with Arizona Republican Rep. Andy Biggs stepping into the fray to criticize his fellow committee members.
"Are we going to continue on with this blatant interruption? This is absurd and inappropriate ... I think you should have decorum and courtesy and don't act like a bunch of nimrods," Biggs said.
Mace argued that Hunter Biden should be arrested on the spot and sent straight to jail. In response, Moskowitz suggested the committee “hold a vote” immediately to hear Biden speak and asked for a show of hands from the room.
Reportedly, only Democrats raised their hands.
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), Rep. Jared Moskovitz (D-FL) and Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) got their share of click-bait.
Hunter Biden was subpoenaed to sit for the closed-door interview on Dec. 13 but instead held a defiant news conference just outside the U.S. Capitol.
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) and Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA). |
"I am here to testify at a public hearing, today, to answer any of the committees' legitimate questions," he said. "Republicans do not want an open process where Americans can see their tactics, expose their baseless inquiry, or hear what I have to say. What are they afraid of? I am here."
Committee Republicans have countered that they are open to public testimony at an unspecified "future date" but "need not and will not accede to Mr. Biden's demand for special treatment with respect to how he provides testimony."
Chairman James Comer, in his opening statement, said Hunter Biden's refusal to comply with their subpoena is a "criminal act."
Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin, the panel's top Democrat, responded that they believe "everyone subpoenaed by Congress whether it's Hunter Biden or Jim Jordan or Andy Biggs or Steve Bannon or Scott Perry should engage in good-faith compliance with the committee's requests." Jordan, Biggs and Perry previously defied subpoenas from the House Jan. 6 Committee to provide testimony.
He also criticized Comer directly for not allowing Hunter Biden to testify in a public forum after extending such invitations for him to do so in various news interviews. Raskin read quotes from the interviews Comer did throughout the fall on the subject.
"The chairman refused to take yes for an answer from Hunter Biden," Raskin said in his opening statement.
The Biden impeachment inquiry, launched unilaterally by ousted Speaker Kevin McCarthy and then formalized months later by the House in a party-line vote, has yet to yield any concrete evidence to support GOP claims that Biden participated in and profited from his son and family's foreign business dealings.
The House Oversight Committee report recommending a contempt charge stated Hunter Biden's testimony is "necessary" to determine whether there are "sufficient grounds" for impeachment.
The committee has also subpoenaed President Biden's brother, James Biden, and former Hunter Biden business associate Rob Walker. It also requested transcribed interviews with other members of the Biden family and Tony Bobulinski, a former business associate of Hunter Biden.
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