Comer hails Hunter Biden subpoena news as 'huge victory' for House Oversight Committee
House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) on Thursday hailed the news that Hunter Biden will sit for a closed-door deposition later this month with his committee and the House Judiciary Committee.
“I think at the end of the day, this is a huge victory for the House Oversight Committee,” Comer said on Fox News. “This is exactly what we wanted[.]”
Biden’s late February deposition follows his avoidance of an earlier December deposition that resulted in lawmakers threatening him with contempt of Congress.
“Hunter Biden will appear before our committees for a deposition on February 28, 2024. His deposition will come after several interviews with Biden family members and associates. We look forward to Hunter Biden’s testimony,” Comer and House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) wrote in a statement.
Last week, Biden made an unexpected appearance at a House Oversight and Accountability Committee markup, before the committee advanced a resolution to hold him in contempt of Congress for what they claimed was his defiance of a December subpoena.
At the hearing, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) expressed her heavy displeasure with the president’s son’s visit, asking “who bribed Hunter Biden to be here.”
“You are the epitome of white privilege. Coming in to the Oversight Committee, spitting in our face, ignoring a congressional subpoena to be deposed. What are you afraid of? You have no balls to come up here,” Mace said.
“I think that Hunter Biden should be arrested right here, right now, and go straight to jail,” she added.
Both Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) called out Mace after her “white privilege” comment.
“I just want to run it back through to the very beginning, because this is something that I just can’t get over. I just can get over the gentlelady from South Carolina talking about white privilege,” Crockett said later in the hearing. “It was a spit in the face, at least of mine as a Black woman, for you to talk about what white privilege looks like, especially from that side of the aisle.”