Speaking to Republicans on Capitol Hill during a closed-door hearing this Wednesday, Hunter Biden told them that claims his father participated in his foreign business dealings are all lies.
“I am here today to provide the committees with the one uncontestable fact that should end the false premise of this inquiry: I did not involve my father in my business,” Hunter Biden said in an opening statement. “Not while I was a practicing lawyer, not in my investments or transactions domestic or international, not as a board member, and not as an artist. Never.”
According to HuffPost, Biden will likely be the last witness Republicans interview as part of their impeachment effort against the President — an effort that does not have unanimous support from GOP members.
One of the GOP's main witnesses in the case was a former FBI informant who said Joe and Hunter Biden $5 million each in bribes, but claims have come under scrutiny. The informant, Alexander Smirnov, is being held in jail after being arrested and accused of lying.
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“Our committees have uncovered substantial evidence of President Biden and his family’s corruption,” House Oversight Committee chair James Comer (R-KY) told reporters before the deposition.
But Biden said, “Rather than follow the facts as they have been laid out before you in bank records, financial statements, correspondence, and other witness testimony, you continue your frantic search to prove the lies you, and those you rely on, keep peddling. Yes, they are lies.”
According to HuffPost's Arthur Delaney, since Smirnov's allegations came under scrutiny, Republicans have been left "with a grab bag of less serious allegations against the Biden family."