GOP's Hunter Biden hearing 'appears likely to fizzle': Politico

After months of hype, Hunter Biden will testify in Congress on Wednesday.

However, Politico's Playbook contends that the hearing "appears likely to fizzle" as the Republican-led impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden loses steam.

"The impeachment effort is on life support after a key witness was charged with lying to federal investigators," Politico reports. "Oversight Chair James Comer's parade of interviews — most recently with presidential brother James Biden — has failed to turn up any new POTUS-threatening evidence. And Comer’s insistence on a closed-door deposition, not the klieg-lights hearing Hunter Biden wanted, means there’s going to be little here to capture the public’s attention."

One source tells Politico that Hunter Biden at this point is "extremely well-lawyered" and that he plans to “reiterate what he and other witnesses have told the committees: His father was not involved in his business."

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The questioning of the president's son won't even be videotaped, meaning that salacious clips aren't going to be leaked to Fox News.

A full transcript of the hearing is likely to be released by the end of the week, however.

Taken together, White House aides aren't sweating the Hunter Biden testimony, as one source tells Politico they plan to "push back on their bulls--t attacks on him and his family" before adding that "there’s just not a lot more juice left to be squeezed" from the current impeachment inquiry.

The inquiry was dealt a massive blow earlier this month when one of its star witnesses, longtime FBI informant Alexander Smirnov, was charged with lying to investigators about alleged multimillion-dollar bribes that President Joe Biden supposedly received from Ukrainian energy firm Burisma.

While the Republican inquiry has turned up some unseemly details about Hunter Biden's professional and personal lives, it has yet to find a direct link between his business dealings and his father.