Hunter Biden dodges closed door deposition at Congress, lashes out at Republicans, calls for public hearing

Hunter Biden showed up to Capitol Hill where he was scheduled to testify before Congress on Wednesday, but he ultimately dodged his closed-door deposition, shocking the media and raising the ire of House Republicans.

The president’s son instead gave a lengthy press conference outside the Capitol where he was surrounded by members of the media who aired his comments live on national television and radio.

House Oversight Chairman James Comer and House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan immediately released statements, chastising the president’s son for his last-minute decision to defy their congressional subpoena.

Hunter Biden today defied lawful subpoenas and we will now initiate contempt of Congress proceedings,” Comer and Jordan said in a joint statement. “We will not provide special treatment because his last name is Biden.”

For his part, the president’s son told journalists that the “Trump attack machine” was targeting him and using him to cast aspersions on his father in the White House. While he acknowledged he “made mistakes” he attacked House Republicans for trying to “dehumanize me all to embarrass and damage my father.”

“For six years, I have been the target of the unrelenting Trump attack machine shouting, ‘Where’s Hunter?’ Well, here is my answer. I am here,” Hunter Biden told journalists on outside the Capitol complex.

Hunter Biden’s subpoena to appear for a closed-door deposition would have been without public attendance or scrutiny. Congressional members were aiming to ask the president’s son about his actions that might shed light on whether his father committed an impeachable offense in terms of his family’s foreign business interactions.

Now the embattled president’s son says he wants to testify publicly instead. He did not give reporters any idea as to when he would do so, however.

Comer said he expects Hunter Biden to attend the original closed-door deposition so he can appear for a public hearing.

“We expect to depose the president’s son, and then we’ll be more than happy to have a public hearing with him,” Comer said, adding, “I don’t know anyone in more trouble than Hunter Biden, and just got in more trouble today.”

The president’s son adamantly defended his father, saying the 46th president was innocent of any wrongdoing despite the inferences from the right.

“Let me state as clearly as I can, my father was not financially involved in my business, not as a practicing lawyer, not as a board member of Burisma, not in my partnership with the Chinese private businessman, not in my investments abroad, and certainly not as an artist.”

The House Republican Judiciary Committee responded on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, saying, “No one believes that. Hunter Biden is welcome to come say that under oath at his deposition today.”