It was an alluring idea at first.
Hunter Biden would appear in public before Congress on Dec. 13 to answer questions about his family’s influence-peddling business.
But of course, it was just another ruse by his high-priced lawyers to avoid accountability and stage a pity party.
Everyone else subpoenaed in James Comer’s House Oversight investigation of the Bidens has to first sit for a transcribed interview under oath.
In Hunter’s case, the committee has hundreds of bank documents, and other evidence to put before him relating to millions of dollars he and other Biden family members raked in from America’s foreign adversaries during his father’s vice presidency.
It is impossible to extract meaningful information from a televised congressional hearing that allows witnesses to filibuster through the five-minute time limits and in which too many members engage in self-interested grandstanding.
As an example of the seriousness of the mounting allegations, Comer released an email Wednesday, showing that a bank investigator responsible for detecting money laundering had warned in 2018 of “unusual” and “erratic” activity related to more than a dozen wire transfers of large sums of money from China to Hunter’s accounts.
It’s just another of the dozens of red flags over the years.
Joe Biden has lied about his involvement in the family money-making scheme, even though he knew he was the “brand” they were selling and often would meet his son’s foreign benefactors for dinners and breakfasts and talk to them on speaker phone.
The Oversight Committee is duty-bound to follow every lead and no amount of squealing and clever lawyering will stop them.