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Hunter Biden accused "MAGA" Republicans of lying and blasted the "unrelenting Trump attack machine" in a passionate speech on Capitol Hill to set the record straight on his business dealings and personal finances after House GOP committee chairs refused his offer to testify before Congress in public. The chairs threatened him with contempt of Congress if he did not testify behind closed doors.

"Let me state as clearly as I can," the President's son stated unequivocally Wednesday morning, minutes after he was scheduled to testify (videos below). "My father was not financially involved in my business, not as a practicing lawyer, not as a board member of Burisma. Not in my partnership with a Chinese private businessman, not in my investments at home nor abroad, and certainly not as an artist."

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) interrupted Reps. James Comer (R-KY) and Jim Jordan (R-OH) on Wednesday as they tried to make the case to reporters that President Joe Biden had improperly benefited from his son's overseas business dealings.

As Comer rehashed claims that there was something nefarious about Hunter Biden repaying his father for a loan that he'd made so that he could buy a truck, Greene started speaking over her Republican colleagues and leveling QAnon-style allegations against the president's son.

Reps. James Comer (R-KY), Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) had a contentious meeting with reporters who surrounded them in a congressional office building on Wednesday as they headed into an effort to impeach President Joe Biden.

The confrontation happened just minutes after Biden's son, Hunter Biden, slammed House GOPers for their campaign against his dad.

Former President Donald Trump is claiming that because he was still president in late 2020 and early 2021, he enjoys "immunity" from prosecution in special counsel Jack Smith's election interference case. That "immunity," Trump claims, renders the case invalid.

Smith considers Trump's immunity-from-prosecution argument in the case ludicrous, and U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan has agreed. In a December 1 ruling, Chutkan stressed that the office of the presidency "does not confer a lifelong get-out-of-jail-free pass."

Rudy Giuliani has allegedly gone from Gracie Mansion to the poorhouse.

That's according to his one-time press secretary, Ken Frydman, who appeared on CNN's "Laura Coates Live," who suggested that the once-revered top prosecutor and NYC mayor is desperately hurting for cash.

Rudy Giuliani, the man once known as "America's mayor," is facing a potentially ruinous financial penalty for defaming Shaye Moss and Ruby Freeman, two Georgia election workers whom he falsely accused to helping to steal the 2020 election from former President Donald Trump.

In discussing Giuliani's plight on CNN Wednesday, host Phil Mattingly noted that Giuliani's attacks on Moss and Freeman were "completely lies" and filled with "racist overtones," such as when he falsely accused the two Black election workers of "passing around USB ports as if they’re vials of heroin or cocaine."

During a Tuesday, December 12 conversation with CNN's Anderson Cooper, former President Richard Nixon White House counsel, Watergate whistleblower and CNN contributor John Dean shared his thoughts on special counsel Jack Smith's current "gambit" in his criminal 2020 election interference case against Donald Trump.

CSmith's current push to get Donald Trump's "claim of immunity in the January 6th case on a fast track to the Supreme Court," Cooper said "could be a decision that ranks among the most consequential for the high court." He added, "Perhaps the closest the court came was in 1974 with US v. Nixon which compelled then-President Nixon to turn over those Watergate tapes."

House Republicans have been trying to impeach President Joe Biden since his first full day in office. On Wednesday, supported by Speaker Mike Johnson, they are expected to vote on legislation to open a formal impeachment inquiry, despite having made public no proof of any impeachable offenses.

Given the years they have spent on filing articles of impeachment against President Biden in his first two years, followed by a nearly-full year of three congressional committees investigating the President, if he had committed high crimes or misdemeanors, Republicans should be readily able to explain those offenses when asked. On Tuesday, in front of C-SPAN cameras as the House Rules Committee was drafting the impeachment inquiry legislation, and even on Fox News, Republicans seemed challenged to offer legitimate reasons why they need to formalize their impeachment inquiry, or to offer actual evidence of a crime.