Wednesday’s hearing offered little concrete new material, but it’s still likely to fuel calls from conservatives to impeach Attorney General Merrick Garland.
House Republicans fired their opening salvo on Wednesday in a new phase of their investigation into Hunter Biden: vetting allegations of interference in the years-long federal probe of the First Son.
Despite the lack of any concrete new material, the hearing is likely to fuel calls from conservatives to impeach Attorney General Merrick Garland. And partisan tensions still flared throughout the proceedings, with Democrats denouncing the GOP investigation as part of a smear campaign against President Joe Biden while the pair of whistleblowers defended their credibility.GOP: Who’s more credible?
Ways and Means Committee Chair Jason Smith used his time to excoriate Democrats for their treatment of the whistleblowers and denounce Hunter Biden’s attorneys for mounting what he called a campaign to discredit the pair. “We can conclude that this Inspector Clouseau-style quest for something that doesn’t exist has turned our committee into a theater of the absurd, an exercise in futility and embarrassment,” said the Oversight panel’s ranking member, Rep. Jamie Raskin .
While the whistleblower allegations center around Hunter Biden, Democrats also routinely pointed back to former President Donald Trump’s administration. That strategy was two-fold: To drive home that many of the decisions homed in on by the two IRS whistleblowers took place during the Trump years, during a federal investigation led by a Trump-appointed U.S. attorney.
Oversight Committee Chair James Comer said that he will soon release an “supplemental memorandum” based on records the committee has received but not yet released related to payments that Hunter Biden or other family members may have received from individuals or businesses in Ukraine, Russia “and other sources.”
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