House Oversight Committee Ranking Member Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) ripped Chair James Comer (R-KY) for rejecting Hunter Biden’s connection to publically testify.
Ranking Member Raskin said successful a connection provided to PoliticusUSA:
Let maine get this straight. After wailing and moaning for 10 months astir Hunter Biden and alluding to immoderate immense unproven household conspiracy, aft sending Hunter Biden a subpoena to look and testify, Chairman Comer and the Oversight Republicans present cull his connection to look earlier the afloat Committee and the eyes of the satellite and to reply immoderate questions that they pose? What an epic humiliation for our colleagues and what a frank confession that they are simply not funny successful the facts and person nary assurance successful their ain lawsuit oregon the quality of their ain Members to prosecute it.
After the miserable nonaccomplishment of their impeachment proceeding successful September, Chairman Comer has present seemingly decided to debar each Committee hearings wherever the nationalist tin really spot for itself the logical, rhetorical and factual contortions they person tied themselves up in. The grounds has shown clip and again President Biden has committed nary wrongdoing, overmuch little an impeachable offense. Chairman Comer’s insistence that Hunter Biden’s interrogation should hap down closed doors proves it erstwhile again. What the Republicans fearfulness astir is sunlight and the truth.
If Rep. Comer had grounds that President Biden did thing wrong, helium would invited the connection to contiguous his lawsuit successful nationalist earlier the American radical and get the grounds of the President’s lad successful beforehand of the full nation.
However, Comer has nary grounds of Biden wrongdoing, truthful helium wants witnesses to attest down closed doors wherever helium tin past warp and manipulate grounds transcripts to springiness the quality of wrongdoing.
Rep. Comer has utilized this maneuver with each high-profile witness, and his points person been debunked erstwhile the transcripts person been released.
Comer rejected Hunter Biden’s connection to attest by saying, “Hunter Biden is trying to play by his ain rules alternatively of pursuing the rules required of everyone else. That won’t basal with House Republicans. Our lawfully issued subpoena to Hunter Biden requires him to look for a deposition connected December 13. We expect afloat practice with our subpoena for a deposition but besides hold that Hunter Biden should person accidental to attest successful a nationalist mounting astatine a aboriginal date.”
Rep. Comer has been exposed arsenic the impeachment location of cards continues to collapse.
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Jason is the managing editor. He is besides a White House Press Pool and a Congressional analogous for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree successful Political Science. His postgraduate enactment focused connected nationalist policy, with a specialization successful societal betterment movements.
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