Republicans on the House Oversight Committee formally invited President Joe Biden to testify for their ongoing impeachment inquiry in a 7-page letter on Thursday.
“The Committee has identified and successfully traced money from foreign transactions — including from China — to your own bank accounts,” wrote Oversight Chairman James Comer, R-Kentucky. “In addition to requesting that you answer the questions posed in this letter, I invite you to participate in a public hearing at which you will be afforded the opportunity to explain, under oath, your involvement with your family’s sources of income and the means it has used to generate it.”
Comer’s letter outlined investigators’ case against the president. It identifies $24 million from “foreign sources” as flowing to Biden, his family, and associates for “no legitimate services” provided.
“[T[he White House has taken a position hostile to the Committee’s investigation and refuses to release certain information or make available witnesses to testify regarding issues relevant to the ongoing impeachment inquiry,” Comer noted.
Last week, lawmakers heard from a pair of former Biden family business partners who accused the president of trading political influence for foreign gifts. The influence peddling schemes, they said, were run primarily by the president’s son, Hunter, who was invited but refused to appear under oath despite a congressional subpoena. House investigators heard from former business partners Tony Bobulinski and Jason Galanis instead at the public hearing.
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