Hunter Biden’s lawyer is rejecting House Republicans’ offer to appear for a public hearing next week, calling it a “carnival sideshow.”
“Your latest step — this March 6 invitation — is not a serious oversight proceeding,” the attorney, Abbe Lowell, said in the letter Wednesday. “It is your attempt to resuscitate your conference’s moribund inquiry with a made-for-right-wing-media circus act.”
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer sent the invitation last week for the president’s son and three of his former business associates to participate in a public hearing.
“Your idea of congressional ’fact-finding’ is, amazingly, to have Mr. Biden appear with the discredited ’witnesses’ you continue to promote,” Mr. Lowell wrote.
Hunter Biden wanted to have a public hearing instead of a private deposition — for which he sat six hours last month — to avoid the grilling he endured by House Republicans and lawyers.
The yearlong investigation into the Biden family’s overseas businesses, mostly in Ukraine and China, is trying to prove President Biden’s involvement while he was vice president. The impeachment inquiry has led to more than a dozen witnesses and thousands of pages of documents and bank records being examined to see what the possible connection is.
Democrats have called on Republicans to stop this probe into the president, saying there’s no evidence of wrongdoing, but Republicans have forged on.
Mr. Comer, Kentucky Republican, subpoenaed AT&T last week requesting a slew of phone records related to Hunter Biden. The subpoena, sent March 6, gave the telecommunication company until March 20 to supply records of text and calls related to the president’s son and any of his accounts. Some go as far back as 2011.
Mr. Comer said the March 20 public hearing will occur and that lawmakers “fully expect Hunter Biden to participate.”
Mr. Lowell said his client would consider an invitation for a public hearing only if relatives of former President Donald Trump were questioned as well.
• Mallory Wilson can be reached at mwilson@washingtontimes.com.
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