House Republicans are urging the Department of Justice to brief Congress on its probe into Hunter Biden ‘s overseas business entanglements.
“[L]egal questions plaguing Hunter Biden continue to arise and cast doubt on President Joe Biden and his administration,” Representative Bob Good and 14 other legislators wrote in a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and obtained by Fox News.
The president’s son currently faces an investigation into the work he did when he sat on the board of Burisma, a corrupt Ukrainian gas company. Hunter Biden has been accused of monetizing his father’s political influence, not just in Ukraine but with entities closely connected to the Chinese government. Notably, Hunter traveled to Beijing with his father aboard Air Force Two in 2013 and forged a partnership with investors tied to the Chinese Communist Party-affiliated Bank of China when he returned state-side.
The GOP members said the public has been privy to “little detail” of the investigation and were not properly presented with the ethical questions of the case.
“It is imperative that the Department of Justice brief Congress on the nature of Mr. Weiss’s investigation into Hunter Biden,” they said. “Congress has a constitutional obligation to conduct oversight of the Executive Branch and a moral obligation to examine if the President of the United States or any senior official in his administration is ethically compromised or injured.”
In addition to Hunter’s engagements in Ukraine and China, as well as Serbia and Kazakhstan, the lawmakers demanded a briefing on a laptop belonging to Hunter that contained “potentially compromising material” and email exchanges between Hunter and Burisma, which have since been reviewed by prosecutors. The existence of the laptop, which Hunter allegedly left at a repair shop in Delaware, was first reported in 2020 by the New York Post but was dismissed as a right-wing smear by many mainstream outlets and censored by social media platforms.
The president repudiated the laptop evidence in 2020, telling the public that “there are 50 former national intelligence folks who said that what he’s accusing me of is a Russian plant,” referencing former president Trump’s allegations at the time.
After calling the Post story “unsubstantiated” in September 2021, the New York Times confirmed the authenticity of emails and a laptop attributed to Hunter Biden last month.
The letter’s signatories include U.S. Representatives Bob Good, Andy Biggs, Jeff Duncan, Ralph Norman, Mary Miller, Chip Roy, Michael Cloud, Dan Bishop, Scott Perry, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Jody Hice, Tom Tiffany, Ken Buck, Matt Gaetz, and Vicky Hartzler.