The House Republicans’ impeachment inquiry targeting President Joe Biden has proven to be an embarrassing affair for GOP crusaders. After a year of desperate searches, assorted partisans simply haven’t been able to uncover any evidence of wrongdoing on the Democrat’s part.
But the search continues — and apparently expands. NBC News reported that two of the key Republican inquisitors are now pursuing possible communications between the White House and Hunter Biden’s lawyers.
House Oversight Chair James Comer, R-Ky., and Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, made the request in a letter to Edward Siskel, assistant to the president and White House counsel, obtained by NBC News. The GOP chairmen said they’re seeking to determine whether the president was involved in his son’s decision to not comply with a congressional subpoena.
The letter asks for all “documents and communications sent or received by employees of the Executive Office of the President regarding the deposition of Hunter Biden,” as well as any records “sent or received by employees of the Executive Office of the President regarding President Biden’s statement about his family’s business associates on December 6, 2023.”
The far-right congressmen, undeterred by months of failure, have no idea whether there were any communications between the White House and Hunter Biden’s lawyers about his deposition, but their correspondence said they feel compelled to explore the possibility that the president “engaged in a conspiracy to obstruct a proceeding of Congress.”
Comer and Jordan added that they also consider it a possibility that Joe Biden “corruptly sought to influence or obstruct the Committees’ proceeding by preventing, discouraging, or dissuading his son from complying with the Committees’ subpoenas.” The GOP committee chairs — one of whom spent last year refusing to comply with a congressional subpoena — concluded that “such conduct could constitute an…
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