Hunter Biden's Testimony Could Be The Final Nail In The GOP's Impeachment Scam

Hunter Biden has agreed to testify before the House Oversight Committee on December 13, and his testimony could break the Biden impeachment drive.

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Hunter Biden Is Coming To Testify With Knives Out

Here is the Republican plan for Biden's impeachment. After Hunter Biden testifies, they plan to draft articles of impeachment against Joe Biden in January, and then move forward on impeachment.

No one is sure what move forward is since House Republicans appear not to have the votes to authorize an impeachment investigation, but this whole scheme depends on Hunter Biden giving Republicans something that they can turn into an impeachable offense.

There is just one problem.

Hunter Biden and his legal team are showing up with knives out for Comer and House Oversight Republicans.

Here is how Hunter Biden’s lawyer Abbe Lowell kicked off his letter notifying the committee that Hunter Biden will testify on December 13:

This letter is in response to your November 8, 2023, subpoena and letter (and that from the Judiciary Committee) seeking a December 13, 2023, deposition of our client, Robert Hunter Biden, as part of your proclaimed impeachment inquiry of President Biden. Even before taking leadership roles in 2023 (in fact before the 2022 election), you and your colleagues announced your intention to pursue an “impeachment first, justification later” crusade.

Disposing of any possible confusion as to your motives, you agreed with a Fox News journalist on May 22, 2023, that yours was an improper political purpose to “absolutely” move the needle of political support for the 2024 election. Here we are, eleven months into your so-called investigation, and every objective review of your “revelations”—including by some of your colleagues—has declared your exploration as one turning up only dry holes. As one commentator noted, addressing the drawn-out and dried-up nature of your inquiry as well as the “debacle” that was your first hearing, it “takes longer to make progress when you’re not moving forward at all.”

Your Committee has been working for almost a year—without success—to tie our client’s business activities to his father.

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Your empty investigation has gone on too long wasting too many better-used resources. It should come to an end. Consequently, Mr. Biden will appear at such a public hearing on the date you noticed, December 13, or any date in December that we can arrange. From all the individuals you have requested depositions or interviews, all you will learn is that your accusations are baseless. However, the American people should see that for themselves.

The path ahead of for pro-impeachment Republicans is full of political landmines that we will discuss below.