Hunter Biden responded Tuesday to a House subpoena for testimony about his overseas business deals, offering to testify at an open hearing rather than closed-door deposition, which his lawyer said would prevent a “cloaked, one-sided process.”
But Rep. James Comer, chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, said he would be expected to testify behind confidentially at first, as requested. Comer subpoenaed the president’s son Nov. 8 for testimony about deals in Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine during a period when his father served as vice president.
But Biden’s lawyer, Abbe Lowell, has accused the three House Republican chairmen investigating Hunter Biden – Comer of Kentucky, Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan of Ohio and Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith of Missouri – of repeating “worn-out, false, baseless or debunked claims.”
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