Hunter Biden declines GOP invitation to testify publicly before House committee
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Washington — Hunter Biden, President Biden's son, will not testify publicly before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee at a hearing scheduled for next week, his lawyer informed the panel's GOP chairman in a letter Wednesday.
GOP Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, head of the Oversight Committee, announced last week that he invited Hunter Biden and several former business associates to answer questions at the hearing set for March 20. But Abbe Lowell, Hunter Biden's lawyer, told Comer that neither he nor the president's son can attend in part because of a court hearing in California scheduled for March 21.
"The scheduling conflict is the least of the issues, however," Lowell wrote. "Your blatant planned-for-media event is not a proper proceeding but an obvious attempt to throw a Hail Mary pass after the game has ended."
