Hunter Biden ignores subpoena, holds press conference instead

Bonnie Cash | UPI

President Biden’s civilian son, Hunter, held a public press conference outside the Capitol building the morning House Republicans insisted he show up for a closed-door deposition regarding their impeachment inquiry into his father.

It was a bold move: the culmination of Hunter’s weeks-long challenge to House Republicans to allow him to testify publicly before the American people. 

In previous months, leaders of the Biden probe like James Comer, Jim Jordan, and Jason Smith repeatedly dared Hunter to come before them—privately in a closed-door deposition or publicly in a committee hearing.

Eventually, Republicans issued their long-threatened subpoena for his testimony and Hunter called their bluff in response: publicly taking up their offer to testify before a full committee hearing, citing the GOP’s propensity for distorting facts, concealing evidence and records, and clinging to testimony as reasons for his disinclination to be privately deposed.

In turn, Republicans abruptly changed their tune and insisted Hunter be deposed privately first, vaguely gesturing towards “future” public testimony. 

But Hunter was undeterred and on the day he was supposed to appear in deposition, he instead gave public remarks at a press conference outside the Capitol building.

In his remarks, the younger Biden insisted his father had nothing to do with his various businesses, rebuked Republicans for their misrepresentations, and dared the inquiry’s leaders to question him openly before the American people.

They declined.