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Two Republican committee chairmen, James Comer of Kentucky and Jim Jordan of Ohio, have restarted their investigation into President Joe Biden. The investigation centers around allegations that the President may have tried to hinder his son Hunter Biden’s cooperation with the House’s impeachment investigation. According to an official White House statement, President Joe Biden was aware in advance of Hunter’s plan to ignore congressional subpoenas, which has prompted this renewed investigation.
According to the statement, “In light of an official statement from the White House that President Biden was aware in advance that his son, Hunter Biden, would knowingly defy two congressional subpoenas, we are compelled to examine as part of our impeachment inquiry whether the President engaged in a conspiracy to obstruct a proceeding of Congress.”
The letter requested:
Accordingly, and pursuant to the impeachment inquiry, please produce the following information for period January 20, 2021, to the present:
1. All documents and communications sent or received by employees of the Executive Office of the President regarding the deposition of Hunter Biden, including but not limited to communications with Hunter Biden, Winston & Strawn LLP, and Kevin Morris; and
2. All documents and communications sent or received by employees of the Executive Office of the President regarding President Biden’s statement about his family’s business associates on December 6, 2023. Please produce this information as soon as possible but no later than January 10, 2024.
“The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability (Oversight Committee) and the House Committee on the Judiciary (Judiciary Committee, and with the Oversight Committee, the Committees) are investigating whether sufficient grounds exist to draft articles of impeachment against President Biden for consideration by the full House. Along with House Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith, we set forth in a September 27, 2023 memorandum the evidence justifying the inquiry and the scope of this impeachment investigation.2 On December 13, 2023, the House of Representatives directed the Committees to continue this investigation,” the statement read.
“In light of an official statement from the White House that President Biden was aware in advance that his
son, Hunter Biden, would knowingly defy two congressional subpoenas, we are compelled to examine as part of our impeachment inquiry whether the President engaged in a conspiracy to obstruct a proceeding of Congress,” the statement added.
The statement continued: “The Committees issued subpoenas to Hunter Biden for a deposition to be conducted on December 13, 2023.4 In correspondence with Mr. Biden’s attorney prior to the scheduled date of the depositions, the Committees addressed and rejected Mr. Biden’s justifications for not complying with the terms of the subpoenas, as well as Mr. Biden’s demand for special treatment from the Committees.”
In December, the United States House of Representatives voted to formally authorize an investigation into whether President Joe Biden improperly benefited from his son Hunter Biden’s international business dealings. The Republican-controlled chamber approved the investigation by a party-line vote of 221-212. Hunter Biden had initially declined an invitation to testify behind closed doors. The newly elected House Speaker Mike Johnson has stated that the impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden is a responsibility that they must fulfill.
“These are — these are serious times and this is a very serious matter. And I’ve said many times over the last few years, because impeachment has been an issue that we’ve all become all too familiar with, that next to the Declaration of War, you can make an argument that impeachment may be the heaviest power that Congress holds. That — that constitutional responsibility lies with the House,” Johnson began at a press conference.
