Hunter and James Biden to be called for depositions in impeachment inquiry: Republicans will also call in the president’s son’s WIFE and his ex-lover Hallie for interviews as they ramp up investigation
House Republicans plan to fire subpoenas for the Biden family in a major escalation of their investigation into their foreign business deals.
Hunter Biden and James Biden, the president’s brother, and Biden family aide Rob Walker have been called for testimony before the Oversight Committee — which has taken the lead in Biden’s impeachment inquiry.
The committee has asked Hunter Biden to come in on December 13 and James Biden to come in on December 6.
Committee Chairman James Comer is also requesting transcribed interviews with Melissa Cohen, Hunter’s wife, Sara Biden, Frank’s wife, Hallie Biden, Hunter’s ex-girlfriend and Beau Biden’s widow, Elizabeth Secundy, Hallie’s sister with whom Hunter is said to have had a romantic relationship. with while she was married, and Hunter employee Tony Bobulinski.
Comer says he has traced about $24 million from foreign actors to the bank accounts of the Biden family and Biden associates. In issuing subpoenas for banking records, the Republican Party-led commission says it has found 20 shell companies linked to the Biden family, most of which were created when Joe was vice president. The money was traced to foreign actors in China, Russia, Ukraine, Romania and Kazakhstan.
Hunter Biden will be subpoenaed to testify before Congress and Melissa Cohen, his wife, right, will be asked to participate in an interview
James Biden, left, has been subpoenaed. His wife Sara has been invited for an interview
Comer says the shell companies were used to provide a convoluted path to the payments that didn’t set off any alarm bells.
White House spokesman Ian Sams scoffed at the new subpoenas and accused Republicans of trying to “distract” — citing the Nov. 17 government funding deadline.
With just over a week to go before Republicans in the House of Representatives can plunge the country into another damaging and chaotic government shutdown, the most extreme voices in their party, like James Comer, are trying to distract from their repeated failures to govern.”
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre did not respond to a loud query from DailyMail.com about whether Hunter and James should comply with the subpoenas.
Comer recently touted an image of a $200,000 check that James Biden sent to his brother Joe Biden as a “smoking gun,” but the check was marked as a loan repayment.
President Joe Biden is at the center of a highly lucrative “racketeering scheme” between members of his family and foreign actors – including China – whom Republicans are denouncing.
Earlier this week, Comer revealed a $40,000 direct payment to Joe from 2017, labeled as a “loan repayment” that he claims is “laundered money” traced to the Chinese.
Comer says banking records the committee obtained through recent subpoenas for James and Hunter Biden’s financial records, a money trail that began in July 2017, trickled from Chinese oil giant CEFC — one of Hunter’s joint ventures — into Joe’s account.
Hallie Biden, Hunter’s ex and Beau Biden’s widow, has been invited for an interview
Hunter and Hallie Biden dated from 2016 to 2019
In WhatsApp messages from August 2017, previously published by DailyMail.com, Hunter demanded $10 million from CEFC and claimed his father was sitting “right here” next to him during the exchange.
After an initial $5 million infusion from CEFC into the joint venture on August 8, 2017, and a transfer of $400,000 to Hunter Biden entity Owasco, PC on the same day. Then, on August 14, 2017, $150,000 was transferred directly from Owasco to the bank account of James and Sara Biden – Joe’s sister-in-law.
Then, on September 3, 2017, Sara wrote a $40,000 check directly to Joe — just six days after she withdrew $50,000 in cash, according to the documents obtained.
“By taking money from a CCP-affiliated company that sought to advance Chinese interests, Joe Biden exposed himself to future blackmail and put American interests behind his own desire for money,” Comer said in a video released Wednesday published.
This is the fourth “Bank Records Memorandum” the committee has issued so far this year to notify members of their ongoing investigation.
Joe Biden has previously stated that Hunter never made money from China, and the White House has insisted that the president never profited from his family’s business ventures.