The Hollywood producer who introduced Hunter Biden to his ‘sugar brother’ Kevin Morris will be next questioned by Republicans leading the impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden.
Big Biden donor Lanette Phillips is wanted for an interview for introducing Hunter to Morris and his art dealer Georges Bergès — both of whom helped the president’s son raise millions of dollars.
In addition to the more than $875,000 worth of art Morris purchased, he also loaned Hunter more than $6.5 million, earning him the title “sugar brother.” And Bergès facilitated more than $1.5 million in sales for Hunter’s amateur art.
Republicans James Comer and Jim Jordan wrote Thursday in a letter to Phillips, obtained by DailyMail.com, that the “high dollar sales” of paintings by a “novice” like Hunter raises “suspicion” given that he has been profiting from his last name.
They hope to understand whether Morris’ “substantial financial support” for Hunter “was intended to benefit, ingratiate, or gain access to Joe Biden.”
“As the person who introduced Morris to Hunter Biden, the committees believe you have information relevant to that question,” they continue in the letter to Phillips.
Hollywood producer and major Democratic donor Lanette Phillips arrives at a red carpet for her movie ‘Buffalo Girls’
Hunter Biden’s pipe-smoking Hollywood lawyer Kevin Morris described the chain of events that led to his ‘personal friend’ – the president’s son – borrowing millions of dollars just a month after meeting him
Republicans are asking Phillips to contact staff on their committees by February 8 to schedule an interview.
DailyMail.com reached out to Phillips for an answer on whether she will comply with lawmakers’ demands.
In an interview with investigators next week, Morris described the series of events that led to him lending his “personal friend” Hunter millions just weeks after meeting him.
According to a transcript of the interview obtained by DailyMail.com, Morris Hunter met Biden at an upscale Biden fundraiser hosted in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles in November 2019.
He was introduced to then-candidate Joe’s “struggling” son by Democratic donor Lanette Phillips.
Despite the accelerated timeline of their friendship to Hunter’s financial benefit, Morris insists he doesn’t expect anything from the Bidens politically.
A week after their first meeting, Phillips asked Morris to meet Hunter again at his Los Angeles home because he had “entertainment-type issues” that required the lawyer’s help.
“At the time he had no income and his wife Melissa was five months pregnant,” Morris said of their second meeting in which Hunter, a drug addict, described coming from the “lowest point of his life.”
He said Hunter’s wife Melissa made them tea and he and Hunter talked for “four or five” hours.
Morris said he was “concerned” that Hunter had “no security protection” despite being “harassed by paparazzi” and others who came to his home and threatened him.
“I had a very tribal feeling about Hunter,” Morris said, describing his relationship with the president’s son. ‘He’s a guy. I have brothers…he was in big trouble.”
‘I actually thought he was a man who was beaten up by a gang of people. And you know, where we come from, you don’t let that happen. You get in and you start waving.”
Morris immediately began representing Hunter, and a short month after meeting him, made numerous payments on Hunter’s behalf.
Morris said his activities within Hunter’s legal team are “kind of like general counsel” and that he is “involved in everything.”
Morris then began paying Hunter’s lawyers, making payments on his Venice home and on his “upside-down Porsche,” on which he owed $11,000.
In the first year of their friendship, Morris said he loaned Hunter about $1 million.
Morris went on to detail the at least three times he visited the White House with Hunter.
In 2021, he once said the president had made a “rip” in his hair.
“At the end of the day, we were in the… we were in the country. Hunter is friends with a lot of people there,” he said, according to the transcript.
Despite the accelerated timeline of their friendship with Hunter’s financial benefit, Morris insists he doesn’t expect anything from the Bidens politically.
“And then it was around five or six o’clock, and Hunter went in and said hello. And the president, the president waved. And I think he said hello. He always makes fun of my hair. I think he said something about my hair,” Morris added.
He also attended Naomi Biden’s November 2022 wedding on the South Lawn of the White House and visited the grounds on a few other occasions.
Morris said the payments were “almost always direct payments to third-party vendors,” but Hunter never asked him for the money.
He claimed there was no political motivation behind his relationship with Hunter Biden and that he never discussed politics with the Bidens despite being a longtime Democratic donor.
“Hunter won’t come to me. He never asked me anything. I did these things voluntarily. I have an idea of what they were, and I’m keeping a record. And those that are absolutely necessary, I will take care of them with a loan,” he claimed.
The loans came in the form of five promissory notes between the end of 2020 and 2024. Morris said the notes were standard, interest-bearing notes with a maturity date of 2025, at which point Hunter must begin paying them back.
But Morris said lawyers drafted the promissory notes after lending Hunter the money. He said the terms of the loans are “standard,” meaning he could sue Hunter if the president’s son doesn’t start making repayments by 2025.
Morris said he gave Hunter the money in part because he feared the recovering addict would relapse — which would harm his father, the president.
‘I’m afraid he’ll relapse every – yes, and every day since. And I think that’s the intention of the people in the world to get him. Because they know that him relapsing is the thing that will upset him the most and impact his father the most,” Morris said.