President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, agreed to a sit-down deposition before House lawmakers with an eight-page attorney letter to Capitol Hill on Friday.
Two days after lawmakers on the House Oversight Committee and the House Judiciary Committee voted to advance contempt resolutions against the president’s son, an attorney for the younger Biden said they would provide Hunter Biden for a closed-door interview.
“If you issue a new proper subpoena, now that there is a duly authorized impeachment inquiry, Mr. Biden will comply for a hearing or deposition,” Attorney Abbe David Lowell wrote. “We will accept such a subpoena on Mr. Biden’s behalf.”
The letter was submitted after Hunter Biden made a surprise appearance on Capitol Hill to capture tape for an upcoming Netflix documentary as lawmakers debated whether to hold him in contempt.
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Hunter Biden pleaded not guilty to additional tax charges filed by Special Counsel David Weiss in California the next day. Months after a federal judge in Delaware derailed a sweetheart plea agreement, Weiss charged Hunter Biden with nine new tax crimes but withheld charges related to foreign influence-peddling involving his father in the White House.
Lowell spent eight pages in the Friday letter to lawmakers arguing the subpoena issued by House Republicans in November was invalid because the request focused on impeachment. House Republicans did not formally authorize an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden until mid-December.
Lowell refused lawmakers’ request for months
