GOP Slammed For Nixing Public Testimony Of Hunter Biden

A lawyer for Hunter Biden has told the US House of Representatives Oversight Committee that the president's son is willing to testify before Congress.

House Oversight Committee ranking member Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) ripped his GOP colleagues for rejecting Hunter Biden’s request for an open hearing on Dec. 13, when the president’s son is set to appear for a closed-door deposition. I Illustration: DonkeyHotey Flickr

But Hunter Biden requested that it be a public hearing to "let the light shine on these proceedings," his counsel Abbe Lowell said, Sam Cabral reported for BBC News.

The letter follows a flurry of legal summonses issued this month by Republicans on the Oversight Committee.

Its chairman said Biden's ask "won't stand with" GOP, however. James Comer, the Republican chairman of the Oversight Committee, accused the president's son of "trying to play by his own rules" in his request for a public hearing.

House Oversight Committee ranking member Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) ripped his GOP colleagues for rejecting Hunter Biden’s request for an open hearing on Dec. 13, when the president’s son is set to appear for a closed-door deposition, Sarah Fortinksy reported for The Hill.

Raskin called the GOP move “an epic humiliation” and “a frank confession that they are simply not interested in the facts and have no confidence in their own case or the ability of their own Members to pursue it,” referring to the Republicans on his committee.

“Let me get this straight,” Raskin said in his statement. “After wailing and moaning for 10 months about Hunter Biden and alluding to some unproven family conspiracy, after sending Hunter Biden a subpoena to appear and testify, Comer and the Oversight Republicans now reject his offer to appear before the full Committee and the eyes of the world and to answer any questions that they pose?”

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