House Republicans said they will investigate whether President Biden sought to obstruct his son’s cooperation in two GOP-led House committees’ impeachment inquiry.
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The Republican-led House Oversight and Judiciary Committees issued a statement on Wednesday requesting communications between the Biden administration and Hunter Biden’s legal team in an effort to determine whether President Joe Biden was involved in his son’s rejection of a congressional subpoena, as House Republicans continue their impeachment inquiry.Key Facts
In a letter to White House counsel Edward Siskel, House Oversight Committee chair Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) and House Judiciary Committee chair Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) said the committees are “investigating whether sufficient grounds exist” to draft a formal impeachment against Biden, including whether the president “engaged in a conspiracy to obstruct a proceeding of Congress” by assisting his son defied two congressional subpoena requests.
Hunter Biden refused to appear for a deposition earlier this month that the committees had requested in subpoenas.
The House Republicans, in their letter, cite a press conference Hunter Biden held on Dec. 13, the day he was slated to testify in a closed-door meeting, when he instead dismissed the investigations as “illegitimate,” and also referred to White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre’s response in a Dec.
