The House Oversight Committee released on Jan. 8 its resolution to hold President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, in contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with a congressional subpoena.
The committee has alleged that President Biden and Mr. Hunter Biden financially benefited during the former’s vice presidency by receiving money from foreign entities including in China – posing a conflict of interest for the now-president.
Mr. Hunter Biden declined to appear in front of the committee for a closed-door deposition on Dec. 13. He instead made a statement outside the Capitol.
“For six years, I’ve been the target of the unrelenting Trump attack machine shouting. ‘Where’s Hunter?’” he said. “Well, here’s my answer. I am here.”
“Let me state as clearly as I can: My father was not financially involved in my business — Not as a practicing lawyer,” he continued. “Not as a board member of Burisma, not in my partnership with a Chinese private businessman, not my investment at all nor abroad, and certainly not as an artist.”
“There’s no evidence to support the allegations that my father was financially involved in my business, because it did not happen,” he added.
The committee is scheduled on Dec. 10 to mark up the resolution.
Nonetheless, the committee in the executive summary of the contempt resolution stated that “Mr. [Hunter] Biden’s flagrant defiance of the Committees’ deposition subpoenas—while choosing to appear nearby on the Capitol grounds to read a prepared statement on the same matters—is contemptuous, and he must be held accountable for his unlawful actions.
“Accordingly, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Accountability recommends that Congress find Robert Hunter Biden in contempt for his failure to comply with the Committee subpoena issued to him.”
From The Epoch Times
