WASHINGTON — A close personal associate of Joe and Hunter Biden met with the House Oversight and Accountability Committee earlier this year to answer questions about the Biden family’s finances.
Republicans now say the meeting didn’t count.
Eric Schwerin, a former Hunter Biden business partner who also did bookkeeping work for Joe Biden, told committee staff in March that the president had no involvement in his son’s business deals, contrary to Republican claims that have led to an impeachment inquiry in the House of Representatives.
Democrats have repeatedly cited the interview this year, but a spokesperson for committee Republicans told Fox News last week that the committee “never interviewed Schwerin,” apparently because the session was not transcribed like other witness interviews.
“There was a meeting but it was about document production,” the spokesperson said. “There has never been a transcribed interview or deposition.”
Rep. Jamie Raskin (Md.), the…