Headline Roundup • November 29th, 2023
Will Hunter Biden Testify Publicly in Federal Probe?
Summary from the AllSides News Team
Hunter Biden has offered to testify before Congress as long as the hearing is held in public. Will that happen?
Key Details: House Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-KY) has rejected the idea, which was proposed in a letter from Biden's attorney, Abbe Lowell, to replace Biden's scheduled private deposition on Dec. 13. Comer has stated that, like any other congressional investigation, there would be a deposition behind closed doors first and then a hearing where Hunter Biden could testify in public.
Key Quote: “Hunter Biden is trying to play by his own rules instead of following the rules required of everyone else,” Comer wrote in a statement. “That won’t stand with House Republicans.” Lowell's letter said that Comer's "empty investigation has gone on too long wasting too many better-used resources. It should come to an end."
For Context: Three congressional committees are investigating Biden, who was charged in September with three counts related to firearm possession while actively using drugs. After the indictment, a plea deal collapsed, and Hunter is pleading not guilty to the charges.
How the Media Covered it: Some left-rated sources highlighted a statement from Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), the committee's ranking Democrat, saying that Republicans' rejection of Biden's offer means they are "not interested in the facts." Some right-rated outlets highlighted how Biden will, for the first time, have to answer questions about money transfers from foreign sources that found their way to other Biden family members.
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Hunter Biden fired the latest salvo in his counteroffensive against Republican critics Tuesday — and Democrats mostly cheered him on, even as some acknowledge risks in his approach.
President Biden’s son offered to testify before the House Oversight Committee, which has been aggressively investigating his past business activities — so long as the hearing was held in public, not behind closed doors.
Biden was subpoenaed by the committee earlier this month.
Biden’s offer was set out in a letter from his attorney, Abbe Lowell, a famously combative figure who includes high-profile Democrats and...
AP PHOTO/JULIO CORTEZ
Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, agreed to testify in a public hearing before the House Oversight Committee. Republicans immediately shot him down.
According to a Tuesday letter addressed to committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.), Biden agreed to testify before the committee on Dec. 13 — as long as the hearing was public. In the letter, Biden’s attorneys quoted Comer’s own demand, issued in November, that given Biden’s “willingness to address this investigation publicly up to this point, we would expect him to be willing to testify before Congress.”
The letter added that open-door...
Reuters
“The Bidens are the best at doing exactly what the Chairman wants.”
Those words from Hunter Biden to a Chinese businessman came at the height of the alleged influence peddling by the Biden family.
After years of delay and denials, the House is about to confirm exactly what the Bidens were so good at doing … and what foreign figures wanted so much that they were willing to pay the Bidens millions.
Hunter Biden is scheduled to appear before the House Oversight Committee on Dec. 13 to answer questions about...
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