Hunter Biden, son of U.S. President Joe Biden, sits together with his lawyer Abbe Lowell as he makes a shock look at a House Oversight Committee markup and assembly to vote on whether or not to carry Biden in contempt of Congress for failing to answer a request to testify to the House final month, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., January 10, 2024.
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House Republicans mentioned Sunday that they intend to difficulty new subpoenas for President Joe Biden’s son Hunter in the coming weeks after his lawyers agreed to adjust to a “correct” subpoena if it was requested.
“As an lodging to Mr. Biden and at your request, we’re ready to difficulty subpoenas compelling Mr. Biden’s look at a deposition on a brand new date in the coming weeks,” House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., and House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, wrote in a letter to the president’s son lawyer, Abbe Lowell.
The Sunday letter responds to Lowell’s Friday message providing to simply accept a “new correct” subpoena ought to Comer and Jordan resolve to difficulty one.
In their reply, Comer and Jordan mentioned they would take Lowell up on Biden’s “newfound willingness to testify.”
Hunter Biden in December agreed to offer public testimony however refused a congressional subpoena to testify behind closed doorways, sending House Republicans right into a fury. Comer and Jordan led an effort to carry Biden in contempt of Congress for defying the December subpoena, which Congress will vote on subsequent week.
In his Friday letter, Lowell known as the preliminary subpoenas legally invalid as a result of they have been issued earlier than the presidential impeachment inquiry that they served was formalized, which Comer and Jordan denied on Sunday.
“To be clear, the issuance of those subpoenas doesn’t in any method counsel or indicate that the Committees consider the assertions in your January 12 letter to have any advantage,” Comer and Jordan wrote.
Lowell additionally criticized Jordan and Comer for pursuing a vote to carry Biden in contempt for defying an preliminary congressional subpoena for a closed-door deposition in December, regardless of Biden agreeing to offer public testimony.
Jordan himself was unanimously referred to the bipartisan House Ethics Committee for refusing to answer a subpoena to testify about what he is aware of about former President Donald Trump’s position in the U.S. Capitol rebellion on Jan. 6.
Lowell, Comer and Jordan didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.
House Republicans have been investigating the president’s son’s overseas enterprise dealings, claiming with little concrete proof that President Joe Biden unlawfully benefitted from them. The Biden household and the White House have denied any allegations of wrongdoing.
The Hunter Biden investigation is a part of a broader impeachment inquiry into the president, which is one among a number of impeachment probes that House Republicans are at the moment main.