by Steven Richards at Just the News
The first public hearing in the House Republicans’ impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden wrapped on Wednesday after two former business partners of Hunter Biden testified extensively about their experiences, primarily reiterating claims made in their closed door interviews that the Biden family patriarch was involved in various ways in his son’s dealings with foreign clients.
This allegations are in stark contrast to repeated assertions by President Biden and his White House team to the contrary. “First of all, I have never discussed with my son, or my brother, or anyone else, anything having to do with their businesses, period,” then-candidate Biden famously said on the campaign trail in August 2019.
“There will be an absolute wall between the personal and private, and the government. There wasn’t any hint of scandal at all when we were there. And I will impose the same kind of strict, strict rules. That is why I have never talked with my son or my brother, or anyone else in the distant family about their business interests, period,” he asserted.
The committee is still struggling to get answers directly from the Bidens in order to address the discrepancies between these partners’ testimony and the Biden’s. Hunter Biden refused to appear, creating another obstacle for the probe.
The first son reversed course from his previous demands to testify in public…
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