House Republicans Friday suggested Rep. Dan Goldman was a Democratic impeachment attorney with whom Hunter Biden met in January 2020, just after the first impeachment of President Donald Trump.
The implication was in response to GOP lawmakers on the Judiciary Committee where they cited an August Politico piece on their X account that described how President Biden’s son watched his plea deal with the Justice Department over failing to pay taxes and a gun charge fall apart.
The piece details a time when Hunter Biden’s attorneys delved into the “minutiae of his taxes” and claimed that any errors were because of miscommunications and mistakes, incompetent accountants with an individual who had a heavy drug addiction.
Republicans on the Judiciary panel contended that on Jan. 26, 2020, an email sent to Mr. Biden from one of his advisers said they would need several hours to go through questions and find documents as they tried to settle his tax bill.
“I have a meeting tomorrow with impeachment lawyers for the day,” Biden replied. “It will have to wait until Tuesday, I’m afraid.”
Republicans on the Judiciary Committee asked about that exchange, “Which impeachment lawyer did Hunter meet with?”
The House GOP X account responded with a photo of Mr. Goldman, New York Democrat, who joined Congress this year.
The Washington Times reached out to Mr. Goldman’s office for a response but did not hear back.
Mr. Goldman, who was hired to join the House Intelligence Committee to investigate Mr. Trump in February 2019 by Rep. Adam Schiff, California Democrat, played a prominent role as senior adviser and director of investigations during the first Trump impeachment.
He was second in command at the Southern District of New York’s organized crime unit, where he prosecuted the Russian mob and secured convictions for racketeering, murder and money laundering against the Genovese crime family.
Mr. Goldman now serves on the House Oversight Committee and the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government.
In late July, he was mocked by Republicans for inadvertently admitting President Biden did discuss his family overseas business dealings with Hunter, an issue the elder Biden previously denied.
More recently, Mr. Goldman claimed that Hunter Biden’s former business partner Devon Archer told him during a closed-door Oversight Committee interview that the president’s son sold the “illusion of access” to his father.
The “illusion of access” phrase, however, was first introduced by Mr. Goldman, the transcript of the interview later showed, to which Mr. Archer initially agreed was right but then equivocated on whether the description was fair.
• Kerry Picket can be reached at kpicket@washingtontimes.com.
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