Hunter Biden Refuses to Appear at Public House Hearing This Week

Hunter Biden has rejected an invitation to testify at a public congressional hearing into business activities that are the focus of a faltering GOP impeachment inquiry of his father, President Joe Biden.

The younger Biden’s decision not to appear as one of four invited witnesses before the Oversight and Accountability Committee on Wednesday was conveyed last week by his lawyer, Abbe Lowell.

Hunter Biden

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Lowell informed the panel’s chairman, James Comer, that his client had a court date the next day in California, but also fired a broadside at the investigation itself: “Your blatant planned-for-media event is not ...