Hunter Biden Offers to Testify Publicly. House Republicans Say No Way

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 proceedings “would prevent selective leaks, manipulated transcripts, doctored exhibits, or one-sided press statements.”

Republicans would not have it. “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.”

ZeroCool,

The letter added that open-door proceedings “would prevent selective leaks, manipulated transcripts, doctored exhibits, or one-sided press statements.”

And that’s exactly why they aren’t going to allow him to testify publicly.

TWeaK,

The best bit was at the end:

“I welcome Hunter Biden finally agreeing to testify,” Rep. Jason Smith (R-Mo.) wrote on Tuesday. “It’s long overdue for him to come clean in front of the American people.”

Smith deleted the tweet shortly after he posted it.

spankinspinach,

Hahahaha. They hadn’t picked their outrage position yet and he was far too neutral 😂😂

Overzeetop,
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If you call for a dick measuring contest, you don't let it be in public if you know you're going to lose.

SkyezOpen,

And it’s thanks to Republicans that the public knows that hunter biden has a fat fucking hog.

Kowowow,

It’s all been a long con by them to try and get trump to post images of himself naked

DigitalTraveler42,

Marjorie Taylor Greene and her deepest desires to hate fuck that fat fucking hog

Nougat,

Republicans would not have it. “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.”

Are you fucking kidding me right now?

Yearly1845,

Republicans bitched and moaned for months about not getting a special council and when they finally got what and who they demanded they shrieked and raged that it was all a Biden conspiracy.

Nothing surprises me out of these losers anymore.

elbarto777,

Why are you so surprised by whatever Republicans have to say?

Whenever Republicans open their mouths, all I hear is “blergh, blergh, blergh!”

TallonMetroid,
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Conservatives don’t operate in good faith. They’ll say whatever will let them pretend the opposition are the ones breaking the rules, and if that contradicts something they said before that’s just a bonus.

Bakkoda,

If you never actually have goal posts you can’t be guilty of always moving them.

Ultraviolet,

Overt hypocrisy is a display of power. They’re showing that they’re not only above the law, but above rationality itself, they can rule on a whim rather than be consistent.

prole,

And this is why pointing out, or calling out, conservatives for their blatant hypocrisy is a waste of time and effort. They do not care. Many of them are even doing it on purpose to get people distracted from actual issues.

They pivot to arguing about semantics and other meaningless bullshit, and it works. So they keep doing it.

Zellith,

I get he is President Bidens son, but It often feels to me that the waters get muddied to obfuscate any information about WHY he is having legal problems and simply advertise he is HAVING legal problems. (I understand the article eventually gets to that point, but by then I think a lot of people would have tuned out). It just feels like team red use him as an attack vector to hit President Biden, which is kinda sad. The guy has some problems and I dont think being under the media spotlight all the time is good for his mental health.

Witchfire,
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    Mouselemming,

    Or cheated cancer kids

    Mirshe,

    Or cheated a homeless veteran out of the money he said he was raising to get the guy’s dog a very expensive surgery. That’s George Santos, by the way.

    SCB,

    Maybe the only good thing to come of this is that it also publicized what a good dad Joe Biden is

    spaceghoti,
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    It just feels like team red use him as an attack vector to hit President Biden, which is kinda sad.

    That’s all it ever was. If a similar investigation were conducted into their family members, I’m pretty sure they’d catch a lot more like him. The difference is that Republicans are trying desperately to prove that Joe Biden was actively participating in his son’s schemes, and so far they’ve been unable to find anything. I doubt a similar inquiry into their own affairs would come back clean.

    Caradoc879,

    These people went after obama’s girls, who were actual children. They have no fucking shame.

    LazaroFilm,
    @LazaroFilm@lemmy.world avatar

    Hey no fair! He’s trying to stop us from cheating! - the republicans.

    Pratai,

    They’re so transparently corrupt it’s not even surprising anymore. They’ve become like cockroaches that are no longer afraid of the light.

    Narrrz,

    I actively try to avoid killing cockroaches - they're useful to the ecosystem. Republicans, not so much.

    I doubt I'd extend them the same courtesy.

    Pratai,

    Well put.

    ChunkMcHorkle,
    @ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world avatar

    Yes, that is exactly right. That started sometime in the summer of 2016: they suddenly stopped apologizing, and haven’t apologized since. I remember that’s when it changed; some R had some new scandal (no surprise) but his response was basically, “So?” and that was kind of a shock. It’s like the fix was in, and of course now we know that it was.

    lolcatnip,

    That’s been true since at least 2016.

    RememberTheApollo_,

    They want to attack someone and make sure the defendant has no way to defend themselves in order to preserve their narrative? How republican of them.

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    prole, (edited )

    To be fair, you have no way of possibly knowing he’s stayed clean.

    Also, from what I understand, the guy is packing a massive dong, so I’m sure that helps too. Much less embarrassing than it could have been for him due to our societal norms or whatever.

    Edit: not sure why this comment would be controversial. As a “former” addict myself, I know first hand how well some people can hide their use. Anyone who has ever experienced addiction, and relapsed, would tell you that you really can’t know for sure. You just can’t.

    Unless you’re testing hair samples or some shit.

    RunningInRVA,

    The size of the guy’s dong is completely irrelevant and ignorant of the point that, big dong or small dong, Hunter Biden’s privacy and dignity was destroyed by a woman who wanted social media points.

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    BigMacHole,

    Republicans told me he was guilty guilty guilty why don’t they want him testifying in a way that makes it IMPOSSIBLE for him to edit his testimony?

    Burn_The_Right,

    Hell yeah! Let’s force Hunter down their throats! Fuck these dimwit fascist fucks.

    spaceghoti,
    @spaceghoti@lemmy.one avatar

    Most of them have seen what he has to force down their throats. Some of them are probably salivating at the thought.

    SCB,

    I mean, dudes packing heat.

    I hate that I know that but still.

    vaultdweller013,

    Hey at least it ain’t the president and we don’t know what he nicknamed it. Jumbo.

    Bakkoda,

    I think deep down you know there’s guaranteed hate from a select number of male politicians just straight based on dick envy (assuming I’m understanding the comments right). It sums up our government in better ways than most journalists could nowadays.

    CharlesDarwin,
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    Marge seems positively obsessed with it. A few of the Karens I know IRL seem to bring up the nudes on the “laptop” at nearly every opportunity. I think I have an idea about just why they constantly talk about it. Most Americans DGAF about Hunter - who doesn’t even hold any office and has zero effect on their lives, but a certain kind of man and a certain kind of woman seem to be unable to stop talking (and thinking) about him and his nudes.

    Goferking0,

    Why else would marge show it off on the floor

    pottedmeat7910,

    I think Republicans have set that precedent that congressional supoenas are essentially optional, so Hunter can safely sit this one out if he feels like it.

    DarkGamer,
    DarkGamer avatar

    Benghazi II: gaslight harder

    AnotherAttorney,

    "Our lawfully issued subpoena to Hunter Biden requires him to appear for a deposition on December 13. We expect full cooperation with our subpoena for a deposition but also agree that Hunter Biden should have [the] opportunity to testify in a public setting at a future date."

    No one said he cannot testify publicly. He's just going to be deposed first. This is standard protocol for not just congressional hearings, but pretty much any kind of civil litigation.

    IHeartBadCode,
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    Yeah this is an odd thing for Democrats to harp on. Being deposed is usually a requirement for any testimony and it feels like Democrats want to avoid deposition.

    But the entire point is so that everyone can get ready to discuss what your testimony will entail. Trying to avoid deposition is like being told you need to give a speech about a topic but aren’t told what the topic is until it’s time for the speech.

    This is a really odd thing for Biden’s attorneys to request. That said, I think the exact thing happened with the January 6th committee where they wanted to depose Trump but Trump wanted to skip it and move straight to testimony which Democrats balked at.

    gregorum,

    Of course not. Then people might hear the truth.

    charonn0,
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    They don’t want a “have you no sense of decency?” moment.

    AbidanYre,

    I think decency went out the window when Marge started showing Hunter’s dick pics to Congress.

    PunnyName,

    And somehow wasn’t charged via revenge porn laws…

    Mouselemming,

    Does that count as a “pussy pass” or is it just GOP? (The “better” Republicans protect her because they can claim to be clean while she does the stuff they want done)

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