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House Republican leaders have signaled that they will now re-issue a “proper” subpoena against Hunter Biden after Hunter’s legal team initially dismissed what they considered an invalid subpoena request from December. House Republicans have broadly accused Hunter Biden of corruption, without offering any evidence for that accusation, and have been seeking to schedule a deposition. The president’s son is now expected to agree to such a deposition in the coming days or weeks, following the successful resolution of the subpoena dispute.
Straight Arrow News contributor Ben Weingarten analyzes Hunter’s potential motives in his initial rejection of the House subpoena and behind various behaviors over the past few years. Weingarten speculates that Hunter, whether consciously or not, might be acting out against his father, perhaps with the aim of undermining President Biden’s reelection bid.
Does Hunter Biden want to sabotage his dad’s reelection bid? The recent theatrics from the president’s troubled son really make you wonder. The Hunter circus returned to Capitol Hill last week as the younger Biden and his lawyer and bank roller caused a ruckus by crashing a House Oversight Committee hearing, during which the members were deciding whether to hold Hunter in contempt of Congress for defying congressional subpoenas. This came on the heels of a stunt that had landed Hunter in hot water in the first place. On December 13, he was supposed to sit for a deposition with House impeachment investigators per the subpoenas. Hunter ignored those demands.
Instead, he took to the Senate side of the Capitol, where the House sergeant-in-arms [sic] couldn’t arrest him, and delivered a statement daring Republican members to hold him in contempt.
The legislators called his bluff with the contempt proceedings, [with] the Oversight and Judiciary Committees both voting to hold him in contempt. If the full House approves the related resolutions, Joe’s DOJ will have to decide whether to pursue charges. Adding insult to injury, Hunter also brought even more heat on his father. It wasn’t just that he shifted the goalposts into another state by changing the story for the millionth time to now clarify that Joe Biden, who once knew nothing about Hunter’s dubious business dealings, now was merely not financially involved. Making matters worse, when he defied the subpoenas and gave a statement, Hunter’s gambit ended up expanding the impeachment inquiry.
