Hunter Biden To Appear Before Congressional Committees Amid Impeachment
Hunter Biden will finally meet with the House Oversight Committee about his tax scandal and Burisma deals. Will he plead the 5th? Will the probe lead to President Joe Biden’s impeachment?
NPR reports on Hunter’s upcoming private deposition with Congress:
Hunter Biden has agreed to appear before House Republicans for a private deposition next month, ending months of defiance from the president’s son, who had insisted on testifying publicly.
The House Oversight Committee announced Thursday that the two parties have agreed for Hunter Biden to sit for a deposition on Feb. 28.
“The president’s son is a key witness in this investigation and he’s gonna be able to come in now and sit down and answer questions in a substantive, orderly manner,” Rep. James Comer, chair of the Oversight Committee, told reporters. He added that Hunter Biden will be able to testify publicly sometime after his deposition.
This deposition is a huge reversal by Hunter Biden and his legal team. He’s represented by a very confident lawyer, Abbe Lowell, whom my dad, Chief Counsel Jay Sekulow, knows personally. Lowell represented Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner during the Mueller investigation – he’s very sharp.
Though Hunter will meet behind closed doors, will he actually testify? And if he does, will he invoke his constitutional right against self-incrimination by pleading the 5th Amendment? If he does this, he won’t be held in contempt of Congress. Of course, he can also plead the 5th if he were to testify publicly – just as Lois Lerner did during the IRS scandal.
Right now, the media is debating how Hunter’s testimony (if it even happens) will affect his dad. As you know, my dad and I know firsthand the gravity of impeachment charges since we personally represented President Donald Trump.
Neither of us is a fan of lowering the bar for impeachment because it becomes a political weapon rather than an accountability tool. Unless the House Oversight Committee has strong evidence to incriminate President Biden, we don’t want the country to go through another impeachment hearing.
We’re in the middle of an election season. Instead of removing President Biden through impeachment, how about letting the people decide if he should be removed from office?
Today is a special day for the ACLJ. The annual March for Life took place today in Washington, D.C., in a snowy event that was still packed. Marchers didn’t let the cold keep them from showing their dedication to the pro-life movement.
Don’t forget how last year we took legal action – and won – when pro-lifers were kicked out of federal buildings for wearing pro-life attire after the march. We are litigating several pro-life cases right now, including filing in two at the U.S. Supreme Court. Please continue to show your support for saving the unborn.
And last but not least, we can’t fail to mention our brief that we just filed at the U.S. Supreme Court to defend election integrity. This is one of the most important briefs we’ve ever filed in the ACLJ’s history.
And this case only gets bigger by the day. So far, 52 amicus briefs have been filed supporting our efforts to ensure that you are not denied the right to vote for the candidate of your choice. Some major law professors and firms are joining our fight to save the constitutional republic.
Our reply brief is due soon, and our Supreme Court legal team will be ready to meet the deadline. Read here for a breakdown of why the radical Left’s twisting of the 14th Amendment to “disqualify” President Trump from the ballot is unconstitutional.
Today’s Sekulow broadcast included a full analysis of Hunter Biden’s upcoming deposition with the House Oversight Committee and its possible political fallout for President Biden. We also discussed today’s March for Life, the latest news with the Houthi rebels, the ACLJ’s ongoing work to defend the Israeli hostages, and much more.
Watch the full broadcast below: