Hunter Biden is threatening to refuse a demand that he appear for closed-door questioning next week before the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability. In the wake of his indictment on Thursday on nine counts of failing to pay taxes and evasion, he has become the central figure in the continuing investigation into whether President Joe Biden committed an impeachable act. The indictment raises the possibility that Hunter will seek an immunity deal not from the Justice Department — which the courts already caught trying to cut the president’s son a sweetheart deal — but from Congress.
Hunter has offered up a gambit: He is demanding to skip the committee-staff questioning and go right to a public hearing. Despite all the attraction that such an immediate, controversial appearance might garner, House members must stick to the careful, deliberate pace of their investigation if they wish to prepare the ground for a serious impeachment proceeding.
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