In a recent letter, Abbe Lowell — an attorney for the current president’s son Hunter Biden — rejected a push by House Oversight Committee chairman Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) for his client to appear at a public hearing this month. The sought participation by the younger Biden would follow very soon after he sat for hours of questioning by investigators in Congress including members of Comer’s committee.
Hunter Biden has been ensnared in the House GOP’s impeachment inquiry targeting his father, amid which Republicans have tried — and failed — to substantially connect the older Biden to ostensible business corruption in which Hunter was involved. That even includes recent work by the president’s son in contemporary art, which Republicans have baselessly suggested could be part of what they’ve deemed “influence peddling” on the Bidens’ part. Hunter was consistent during his recent Congressional deposition in asserting that his father had no role in his business activities.
Lowell pointed to this in response to Comer, getting more generally behind the idea of Republicans finally shutting down their probe.
“After that six-plus hour deposition on February 28, 2024, along with the realization that your inquiry was based on a patchwork of conspiracies spun by convicted liars and a charged Russian spy, I thought even you would recognize your baseless impeachment proceeding was dead,” Lowell wrote to the chairman. “Even before Mr. Biden testified, witness after witness undermined the central premise of your partisan charade. President Biden has done nothing wrong and certainly nothing, even in your misapplication of the impeachment provisions of the Constitution, to warrant further proceedings. Then, Mr. Biden’s answers to every question you, your colleagues and staff posed to him were the final nail in the coffin of your wasteful year-long misadventure.”
He also pushed for investigative focus instead on Jared Kushner, the son-in-law to former President Trump who has faced extensive questions over a Saudi Arabian fund controlled by the country’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman giving billions of dollars to an investment fund led by Kushner after leaving service in the Trump administration. Was the money part of some kind of quid pro quo?
