Minutes after his shock look, Hunter Biden exited a listening to led by House Republicans aiming to carry him in contempt of Congress for refusing to talk to them behind closed doorways about his enterprise practices.
President Joe Biden’s son has supplied to reply the lawmakers’ questions in a public listening to, and confirmed up unexpectedly on Wednesday to emphasise that time.
He bowed out, nevertheless, simply as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) claimed her talking time. Greene has waged an unsightly marketing campaign towards Hunter Biden that concerned blowing up sexually specific pictures of him to show throughout a House oversight committee assembly final summer season.
A horde of reporters adopted within the youthful Biden’s wake.
In the halls of Congress, an legal professional for Biden gave a press release reiterating his consumer’s stance: He will readily seem in a public listening to, the place members of the general public can hear from him instantly.
“Hunter Biden was and is a private citizen. Despite this, Republicans have sought to use him as a surrogate to attack his father,” legal professional Abbe Lowell informed reporters. Lowell stated that he’d made affords on “six different occasions since February 2023” to work with the lawmakers that need to discuss to his consumer.
Lowell concluded: “The Republican chairs are commandeering an unprecedented resolution to hold someone in contempt who has offered to publicly answer all their proper questions. The question there is: What are they afraid of?”
Back within the listening to room, Greene referred to as Biden a “coward” for not staying to listen to her communicate.
Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) then used his 5 minutes of talking time to admonish her.
“I think it’s really interesting to hear the gentlelady from Georgia speak about Hunter leaving when she is the person who showed nude photos of Hunter Biden in this very committee room — showing dick pics in this committee room of Hunter Biden,” Garcia stated.
“So I think it’s really ironic, hypocritical, quite shameful as the person complaining about somebody leaving, when she’s showing nude photos of him to this committee.”
