House lawmakers will interview Hunter Biden next month as part of impeachment probe into president

President Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, will provide a closed-door deposition to House investigators on Feb. 28, lawmakers announced Thursday.

The date was set following a threat by House Republicans to hold the president’s son in contempt of Congress, after he defied two subpoenas to show up and privately answer questions about his father’s involvement in his lucrative business deals.

Now, he’ll testify before the House Oversight and Accountability and Judiciary Committees, which are part of a trio of panels conducting an impeachment inquiry into the president over corruption allegations related to Hunter Biden’s deals with China, Ukraine, Russia and other countries. 

The date for Hunter Biden’s appearance follows weeks of negotiations between lawmakers and his lawyer, Abbe Lowell.

Mr. Lowell finally agreed to an appearance by the president’s son after the House voted formally to open an impeachment inquiry and then threatened to hold the president’s son in contempt of Congress.

Hunter Biden has shown up twice to the Capitol, offering to testify at a public hearing, which lawmakers rejected. He told reporters the impeachment probe is politically motivated and aims to exploit his past drug addiction and other personal problems to harm his father. 

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The Oversight panel has also scheduled closed-door testimony for other key witnesses, including ex-business associate Rob Walker, whom investigators say is a critical witness in their impeachment probe.

Mr. Walker once said, according to uncovered emails, that exposing his financial dealings with the first family would “bury all of us.”

Mr. Walker is scheduled to testify on Monday.  Another former Biden business associate, Eric Schwerin, will testify on Jan. 29 and Tony Bobulinski, who has released emails and made claims about Mr. Biden’s involvement in business deals, will answer questions on Feb. 5.