Hunter Biden Rebukes House GOP Impeachment Inquiry in Testimony
The Facts
Hunter Biden took a defiant tone at the House Republican impeachment inquiry into Pres. Joe Biden during a long-awaited closed-door deposition on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, condemning it as baseless and politically motivated.
The president's son claimed that the years-long investigation was built on a "false premise" — as his father was never involved in his business — and based on unverified allegations from a former FBI informant who has been charged with lying about a Ukrainian firm paying bribes to Joe and Hunter.
The Spin
Democratic narrative
Yet again, House Republicans have embarrassed themselves by insisting on pushing unreliable corruption allegations against the Biden family to try to impeach Pres. Joe Biden, despite not even their conference unanimously supporting this move anymore. There's a straightforward explanation for why, after all these years, no proper evidence of the president's wrongdoing has emerged: because there isn't any.
Republican narrative
Democrats may fail to realize it, but Hunter's testimony does corroborate the suspicion that Pres. Biden was indeed involved in the family's business endeavors. Despite arguing that the deal signed with a Chinese state-linked firm contained no percentage for his father, Hunter refrained from denying that his father was the "big guy." And, as odd as it seems, he revealed that he joined the board of Ukraine's Burisma to counter Russian aggression.
