According to a Tuesday letter addressed to committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.), Biden agreed to testify before the committee on Dec. 13 — as long as the hearing was public. In the letter, Biden’s attorneys quoted Comer’s own demand, issued in November, that given Biden’s “willingness to address this investigation publicly up to this point, we would expect him to be willing to testify before Congress.”

The letter added that open-door proceedings “would prevent selective leaks, manipulated transcripts, doctored exhibits, or one-sided press statements.”

Republicans would not have it. “Hunter Biden is trying to play by his own rules instead of following the rules required of everyone else,” Comer wrote in a statement. “That won’t stand with House Republicans.”

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    I get he is President Bidens son, but It often feels to me that the waters get muddied to obfuscate any information about WHY he is having legal problems and simply advertise he is HAVING legal problems. (I understand the article eventually gets to that point, but by then I think a lot of people would have tuned out). It just feels like team red use him as an attack vector to hit President Biden, which is kinda sad. The guy has some problems and I dont think being under the media spotlight all the time is good for his mental health.

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      It just feels like team red use him as an attack vector to hit President Biden, which is kinda sad.

      That’s all it ever was. If a similar investigation were conducted into their family members, I’m pretty sure they’d catch a lot more like him. The difference is that Republicans are trying desperately to prove that Joe Biden was actively participating in his son’s schemes, and so far they’ve been unable to find anything. I doubt a similar inquiry into their own affairs would come back clean.

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        These people went after obama’s girls, who were actual children. They have no fucking shame.

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      Maybe the only good thing to come of this is that it also publicized what a good dad Joe Biden is