What a COMPLETE flip-flop and totally misleading. First Hunter does not want to testify "in the open." NOW, when given a chance to testify "in the open" he again refuses. What is Hunter hiding?
Note that this process has been established for some time before Hunter Biden was summoned.
WASHINGTON, March 13 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden rejected a request to testify to an open hearing before a Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives committee conducting an impeachment probe of his father, his lawyer said on Wednesday.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/hunter-biden-declines-attend-public-hearing-us-house-axios-reports-2024-03-13/#:~:text=WASHINGTON%2C%20March%2013%20(Reuters),his%20lawyer%20said%20on%20Wednesday.Hunter Biden appears on Capitol Hill but refuses to testify behind closed doors. Dec. 13, 2023 7:58 a.m. Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, says he is willing to appear before an open hearing of the House Oversight committee but did not appear at a scheduled closed-door session.
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"I am here to testify at a public hearing today to answer any of the committee's legitimate questions," Biden said. "Republicans do not want an open process where Americans can see their tactics exposed, expose their baseless inquiry or hear what I have to say."
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"This is an investigation about public corruption at the highest levels," the Kentucky Republican added. "We have accumulated mountains of evidence that's concerning to an overwhelming majority of Americans. ... We expect to depose the president son and then we will be more than happy to have a public hearing with him."
https://www.opb.org/article/2023/12/13/hunter-biden-appears-on-capitol-hill-but-refuses-to-testify-behind-closed-doors/#:~:text=Hunter%20Biden%20appears%20on%20Capitol%20Hill%20but%20refuses%20to%20testify%20behind%20closed%20doors,-By%20Lexie%20Schapitl&text=Dec.,a%20scheduled%20closed%2Ddoor%20session.NOTE:
“Hunter Biden for months stated he wanted a public hearing, but now that one has been offered alongside his business associates that he worked with for years, he is refusing to come,” Comer said.
https://thehill.com/homenews/4528859-hunter-biden-declines-request-to-appear-at-public-hearing/and:
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer is expected to open the hearing by explaining that throughout the impeachment inquiry, investigators have "found no credible evidence of the Bidens providing any work product" and has "identified no legitimate value or document or even one single hour of work that the Bidens have provided their business partners."
"What is apparent, after over a year of investigation, is that the Bidens do not work in any traditional sense of the word. They do not work as consultants. Or lawyers. Or advisors. The Bidens don’t sell a product or a service or a set of skills," Comer will say, according to excerpts of his opening statement obtained by Fox News Digital. "The Bidens sell Joe Biden
Comer will say that Joe Biden "has taken action after action to further his family’s plans to get rich."
"The scam is simple. The Biden family promises they can make a foreign partner’s problems go away by engaging the U.S. government," Comer will say. "It’s done over and over again. The Biden family promises Joe’s power, Joe Biden shows up, and millions of dollars come into the Bidens’ pockets."
Comer will add: "Joe Biden is the Biden family’s closer."
Comer had subpoenaed Hunter Biden for a deposition scheduled for early December, but the president's son defied that subpoena for a closed-door deposition, demanding a public hearing instead. Comer vowed to give Hunter Biden that public hearing after the committee had him for a deposition — like all other witnesses.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/former-hunter-biden-associates-testify-publicly-amid-next-phase-impeachment-inquiry
