Republican House members leading the impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden are posing new questions about whether the president or other members of the Biden administration coordinated with the president’s son, Hunter Biden, as the younger Biden defied a congressional subpoena earlier this month.
In a letter to White House Counsel Edward Siskel, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) questioned whether President Biden “corruptly sought to influence or obstruct the Committees’ proceeding by preventing, discouraging, or dissuading his son from complying with the Committees’ subpoenas.”
House Republicans had issued a subpoena for Hunter Biden to appear for a closed-door deposition on Dec. 13. The request came as Republicans have been investigating the degree to which President Biden may have participated or otherwise leveraged his political connections to benefit his family’s various business dealings over the years….