James Comer wins: Hunter Biden backs down on refusal to testify in private

Rep. James Comer won a victory against Hunter Biden Friday when the president’s legally beleaguered son agreed to testify behind closed House Oversight Committee doors, according to a new report.

That didn’t stop Hunter Biden’s attorneys from slapping back at House Republicans over a subpoena they argued wasn’t proper or legally valid, the Messenger reports.

"If you issue a new proper subpoena, now that there is a duly authorized impeachment inquiry, Mr. Biden will comply for a hearing or deposition,” attorney Abbe Lowell reportedly said in a letter to Republicans leading the impeach-Joe-Biden charge.

The lawyers argued that the first subpoena, issued in December, was invalid because it came before a resolution launching the inquiry, the Messenger reports.

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Republicans have threatened to hold Hunter in contempt of Congress unless he agreed to a private interview.

Hunter Biden has twice shown up on Capitol Hill in a public show of compliance on his terms, namely that his interview be public.

On Wednesday, he stormed out of a chaotic Oversight committee hearing that saw Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) screaming “you have no balls” and Rep. Marjorie Talyor Greene (R-GA) holding evidence to the contrary.

Democrats who back Hunter Biden's demand to testify publicly fear Republicans will cherry-pick his testimony to support an impeachment inquiry that has yet to produce a smoking gun.