We learned Wednesday from the House Oversight Committee that the Hunter Biden laptop story is “half-fake” and a “political conspiracy theory” and that investigating it is a “trivial pursuit.” Democrats can’t make this story go away, though, and the committee has requested documents from both Hunter Biden and President Joe Biden’s brother, James Biden. CBS News reports:
Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, the Republican chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, has made the panel’s first official requests for documents from President Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, and his brother, James Biden, over foreign business pursuits.
In letters first obtained by CBS News, Comer informed Hunter and James Biden, as well as their then-business manager, that he is seeking documents and communications from the Bidens as part of his committee’s probe into to any possible involvement by the president in their financial conduct, in particular in foreign business deals “with individuals who were connected to the Chinese Communist Party.” Comer accused them in his letter of receiving “significant amounts of money from foreign companies without providing any known legitimate services.”
You know they’re over the target by the way Hunter Biden’s lawyers are trying to sue the people who Biden’s personal data from the laptop, while also clarifying that that doesn’t mean they acknowledge that the data is real.
Catherine Herridge notes that Hunter Biden’s attorney has proposed a “sit down” with Comer and the ranking member of the committee to talk things out.
NEW: Hunter Biden attorney Abbe Lowell now responds to @GOPoversight request for records first reported @CBSMornings. Suggests a meeting to include the committee’s ranking member. https://t.co/eVTOpxQabv pic.twitter.com/udKwuI8DTm
— Catherine Herridge (@CBS_Herridge) February 9, 2023
Flaming privileged crackhead who willingly signed a contract giving up all rights to his abandoned laptop now cries foul, attempts to retcon custodial history of said laptop. https://t.co/07kQCsKUMZ
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) February 9, 2023
Hunter's attorney is acting like Hunter is some special class of citizen that is above the system.
— TruthWarrior (@TruthWarrior_77) February 9, 2023
Time to issue subpoenas
— Jason B (@billyballrot) February 9, 2023
Yeah, Hunter's lawyers don't get to decide what's valid….
— Ollie Mathews (@OllieMathews14) February 9, 2023
Yea, a "private" citizen who landed these CCP deals during an official trip with VP Biden to China on Air Force Two.
— Whispers of Dementia (@mgEyesOpen) February 9, 2023
Biden can thank his pals on the Dem committees last year when the Supreme Court agreed that Trump had to turn his taxes over to the Dems.
— HP (@HPIA3RDDIST) February 9, 2023
Put your ties on. It's formal. Or we can do this in front of a congressional committee. Ask GRINDR boy Yoel Roth how that went yesterday?
— JJ Michaels (@jjmichaels) February 9, 2023
The legislative purpose is to investigate the pay to play operation in which the President of the United States used his own son to make money for the family in multiple foreign nations. The President of the United States is a foreign agent.
— Doc Holliday (@realjhholliday) February 9, 2023
Hard pass. I want to see warrants and predawn raids conducted by the FBI
— Buda (@BudasADHD) February 9, 2023
That's like saying Congress doesn't have standing to investigate Hunter Biden😂
— Jericho (@JerichoXVI) February 9, 2023
Let's be honest, the attempt is to drag this out into a court battle where Lowell knows that Dems are never held accountable in the DC Circuit.
— Kev (@kevicss) February 9, 2023
Very likely. But we think it’s also likely that some subpoenas are in the future for Hunter and James Biden.
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