Hunter Biden is working the fortunate son angle for all it’s worth.
Last month, the embattled scion was called to give a closed-door deposition before the House Oversight and Judiciary panels as part of their impeachment inquiry into his dad, President Biden.
Hunter decided he got to call the shots, as The Hill reported, and failed to appear. He preferred to testify in a public setting.
That’s not how this works. That’s not how any of this works.
According to Republicans, closed-door sessions are standard for this sort of thing, adding that a public format wasn’t alone insufficient. They offered a public hearing at a later date and to release the transcript of the deposition.
Not good enough for Hunter, who soon learned that consequences have actions. The House Oversight and Judiciary panels decided to hold Hunter in contempt of Congress for failing to appear.
But Hunter is nothing if not full of surprises, and on Wednesday made an impromptu appearance at a markup of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee before it was set to approve the contempt resolution.
Who does that?
Lawmakers realized that Biden was in the hearing room. “You are the epitome of white privilege. Coming in to the Oversight Committee, spitting in our face, ignoring a congressional subpoena to be deposed,” Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) said.
Well, yes. Don’t you know who he is?
U.S. Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) suggested they hold a vote on hearing from Biden “right now,” asking for a show of hands. Only Democrats did so.
Biden and his attorney, Abbe Lowell made their exit minutes soon after.
It was a poor showing by Biden, and par for the course. This is the guy who finagled a plea deal, saying he’d cop to misdemeanor tax charges and avoid full prosecution on a gun count if he stayed out of trouble for two years. He’s accused of having a gun for 11 days in 2018, a period where he has acknowledged using drugs, it was reported. It’s illegal for “habitual drug users” to own guns.
That deal imploded over the summer, and since then, prosecutors have filed three felony gun counts in Delaware and, last month, nine tax counts in California alleging he schemed to avoid paying $1.4 million in taxes between 2016 and 2019.
Hunter doubled down. Lowell wanted the gun case tossed out because an appeals court found the law violates the Second Amendment under new standards set by the Supreme Court. She also contended the charges against Hunter violated immunity provisions that prosecutors agreed to in that abandoned plea deal, according to the Associated Press.
The Biden bubble knows no bounds.
If Hunter showed up unannounced at Wednesday’s hearing in a bid to do damage control, he’s too late.
His Manhattan art dealer Georges Bergès said Tuesday that he never worked with the White House on an ethics pact to ensure buyers would remain anonymous — and added that the top purchasers were known to the first son, contrary to prior claims from President Biden’s aides, the New York Post reported.
It doesn’t look good, and normally such family scandals could severely hurt a president’s bid for reelection.
However, Bidenomics is doing a very effective job of kneecapping Joe Biden’s campaign on its own. So is the border crisis.
But we do see where Hunter Biden gets his talent for avoiding blame from.
