Hunter Biden refuses to attend House hearing with former business associates

Hunter Biden will not attend a House Oversight Committee hearing next week regarding alleged influence peddling and the Biden family's business dealings, his lawyer says.

Hunter Biden, son of U.S. President Joe Biden, departs a House Oversight Committee meeting at Capitol Hill on January 10, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)

Lowell reminded Comer of a statement he made in January when he said: "All we need are people to come in for the depositions and then we’ll be finished. We just need people to show up to the depositions and we’ll wrap this up. Nobody wants to wrap this up more than I do."

Lowell said his client, the president's son, "did just as you asked and, as you did when you announced that witnesses could choose depositions, you want to ignore what you said."  

"I must confess my surprise by your hasty request," Lowell wrote. "After that six-plus hour deposition on February 28, 2024, along with the realization that your inquiry was based on a patchwork of conspiracies spun by convicted liars and a charged Russian spy, I thought even you would recognize your baseless impeachment proceeding was dead." 

Lowell said that "even before Mr. Biden testified, witness after witness undermined the central premise of your partisan charade." 

"President Biden has done nothing wrong and certainly nothing, even in your misapplication of the impeachment provisions of the Constitution, to warrant further proceedings," Lowell said. 

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Lowell added that Hunter Biden's answers to questions during his deposition "were the final nail in the coffin of your wasteful year-long misadventure." 

"As Mr. Biden said numerous times, backed up by an accurate reference to the records in the Committees’ possession, his father was never involved in or derived any financial benefit from Mr. Biden’s businesses," Lowell said. "Your allegations of any wrongdoing by anyone comes only from your taking a word, phrase, or line out of context in a few communications usually written by people other than Mr. Biden or when Mr. Biden explained he was in the throes of addiction." 

Tony Bobulinski, a former business associate of Hunter Biden, speaks to reporters at a hotel in Nashville, Tennessee on October 22, 2020.  (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)

"It is your attempt to resuscitate your Conference’s moribund inquiry with a made-for-right-wing-media, circus act," he said. "Your idea of congressional ‘fact-finding’ is, amazingly, to have Mr. Biden appear with the discredited ‘witnesses’ you continue to promote." 

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Lowell went on to blast Bobulinski and Galanis, claiming they have lied.  

"Mr. Biden declines your invitation to this carnival side show," Lowell wrote. 

Jason Galanis worked with Hunter Biden's partner Devon Archer before pleading guilty to fraud. (Facebook Profile)

And Bobulinski testified he personally met with Joe Biden in 2017 for more than 45 minutes. He also testified that Joe Biden "enabled" his son Hunter to sell access to America's "most dangerous adversaries," including the Chinese Communist Party, Russia and more. 

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Meanwhile, Galanis, who is serving a 14-year sentence, testified from prison that Joe Biden was allegedly considering joining the board of a joint venture created by Hunter Biden and his business associates with ties to the Chinese Communist Party after he left the vice presidency.

Galanis also said that the words "lean in" were "used often by Devon and Hunter in our business dealings as a term for access to Vice President Biden’s political influence."

This is a developing story. Please check back for updates. 

Brooke Singman is a political correspondent and reporter for Fox News Digital, Fox News Channel and FOX Business.

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