'Embarrassing spectacle': Jamie Raskin dumps on GOP's Hunter Biden hearing
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) trashed the Republican-led impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden ahead of a much-anticipated hearing featuring Hunter Biden -- and then proceeded to trash it again after the hearing started.
Speaking with reporters, Raskin said the interview with Biden yet again turned up no evidence that President Biden had benefited from his son's business, which had also been the testimony of multiple other witnesses who have spoken before the inquiry.
"Nothing that we've heard from Hunter Biden has changed that in any way," said Raskin. "In fact, he has emphatically and repeatedly underscored to the Republicans that his father was not involved in any way in his businesses, did not profit from his businesses, and Hunter neither asked him for any official favors nor received any official favors from Joe Biden."
Raskin then went on to blast the GOP's entire impeachment inquiry into the president.
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"So what we saw, I think, was a rather embarrassing spectacle where the Republicans continued to belabor completely trivial points," said Raskin. "They seem to be obsessively focused on speakerphones and the use of speakerphones. I did not know that that was 'The Devil's Technology,' but apparently it is and I believe, based on this first hour, that this whole thing really has been a tremendous waste of our legislative time and the people's resources."
The impeachment inquiry into Biden 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.
The House impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden has been criticized for its lack of evidence for the GOP's allegations that the president laundered bribes through his son Hunter's international business deals.
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