Wyoming Republican Rep. Harriet Hageman, who sits on the House Oversight Committee, told The Federalist in an exclusive interview after Hunter Biden’s testimony this week that the president’s son used addiction to escape difficult questions.
Whenever Biden received tough questions, Hageman described the response as “I don’t know, I don’t remember, because I was addicted at that time.” One prominent example came when Biden could not recall a meeting between his father and Chinese business leaders. Biden also played ignorant about the “exact amount” the family received from Chinese companies while claiming every gift and transaction was “completely legal” and “incredibly ethical.”
“He was extremely well prepared,” Hageman said of Biden, who testified in a closed-door deposition Wednesday. “His attorneys had spent probably days and days and days with him to make sure he had his story down very well.”
“Yet when we tried to get into details,” Hageman added, he mostly said, “‘Well, I don’t have a memory of that.’” Biden’s attorneys were also “incredibly aggressive at trying to deflect difficult questions.”
Hageman pressed Biden on his qualifications to handle multimillion-dollar deals with international business partners, considering his problems with addiction.
“In terms of what we have seen with some of the photographs, the information from the laptop, the information from your book, I would say that I don’t believe that that represents someone who would be responsible and considered a professional,” Hageman said in her Wednesday questioning. Biden responded with what Hageman characterized in
