Did Joe Biden engage in “a conspiracy to obstruct?”
In a letter sent to White House counsel this week, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer and House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan requested documents on President Biden’s coordination with son Hunter Biden’s defying a congressional subpoena.
Earlier this month, the embattled First Son showed up to grandstand on the steps of the Capitol instead of meeting with the House Oversight Committee for a closed-door deposition. Biden lashed out at “MAGA Republicans” who “have impugned my character, invaded my privacy, attacked my wife, my children, my family, and my friends. They ridiculed my struggle with addiction. They belittled my recovery and they have tried to dehumanize me, all to embarrass and damage my father who has devoted his entire life to service.”
During a White House press briefing following Hunter Biden’s statements, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre confirmed that President Biden was “certainly familiar with what his son was going to say.”
That begs the question: Did President Biden aid son Hunter in his obstruction of Congress?
“On December 13, Mr. Biden did not appear for the deposition as required by the Committees’ subpoenas,” the letter from the committee chairs says. “Instead, Mr. Biden appeared on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol with his attorney and Representative Eric Swalwell. Mr. Biden gave a lengthy public statement to an assembly of reporters in which he made several statements that are relevant to the House’s impeachment inquiry, including representations about his business activities, assertions about President Biden’s awareness and ‘financial’ involvement in these activities, and attacks on the committees’ inquiry.”
“Ms. Jean-Pierre’s statement suggests that the president had some amount of advanced knowledge that Mr. Biden would choose to defy two congressional subpoenas,” the letter continued. “Under the relevant section of the criminal code, it is unlawful to ‘corruptly … endeavor to influence, obstruct, or impede the due and proper exercise of the power of inquiry under which any investigation or inquiry is being had by … any committee of either House or any joint committee of the Congress.’
“Likewise, any person who ‘aids, abets, counsels, commands, induces or procures’ the commission of a crime is punishable as a principal of the crime.”
The story of Hunter Biden and the story of Joe Biden continue to look like the same story.
Will the chairmen get a response to their letter?
