WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s son Hunter is willing to testify on Capitol Hill, but not in the closed-door setting that Republicans requested.
Hunter Biden’s attorney, Abbe Lowell, skewered the House Oversight Committee’s investigation of the Biden family in a Tuesday letter to House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.), saying a closed deposition would be used to “distort the facts.”
Comer quickly rejected the offer, saying Biden has to testify in private before he can get a public hearing.
“Hunter Biden is trying to play by his own rules instead of following the rules required of everyone else,” he said in a statement. “That won’t stand with House Republicans.”
Republicans have favored private depositions over public testimony this year in their impeachment inquiry against President Biden, whom they have accused of involvement in his son’s foreign business schemes.
“We have seen you use closed door sessions to manipulate, even distort the…