Hunter Biden Rebukes House GOP Impeachment Inquiry in Testimony

Facts

• Hunter Biden took a defiant tone at the House Republican impeachment inquiry into Pres. Joe Biden during a long-awaited closed-door deposition on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, condemning it as baseless and politically motivated.¹
• The president's son claimed that the years-long investigation was built on a 'false premise' — as his father was never involved in his business — and based on unverified allegations from a former FBI informant who has been charged with lying about a Ukrainian firm paying bribes to Joe and Hunter.²
• According to a readout of his subpoenaed testimony, Hunter told lawmakers that he was 'high or drunk' while sending the 'sitting here with my father' message to a Chinese associate — allegedly the wrong recipient — in 2017.³
• Hunter also said that the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees should investigate the business dealings of the former Pres. Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, whose firm reportedly attracted billions in investment from Gulf nations.⁴
• The next step in the impeachment inquiry will be a public hearing with Hunter, which is yet to be scheduled, as the Oversight Committee seeks to address alleged inconsistencies between his deposition and previous statements made by his associates.⁵
• While his uncle, James Biden, testified last week that the president has never had any involvement or financial interest in his business ventures, the impeachment inquiry heard from former business associates of Hunter's that Joe was personally involved in the dealings.⁶

Sources: ¹The New York Times, ²CNN, ³New York Post, ⁴WSJ, ⁵The Hill and ⁶FOX News.

Narratives

• Democratic narrative, as provided by Huffington Post. Yet again, House Republicans have embarrassed themselves by insisting on pushing unreliable corruption allegations against the Biden family to try to impeach Pres. Joe Biden, despite not even their conference unanimously supporting this move anymore. There's a straightforward explanation for why, after all these years, no proper evidence of the president's wrongdoing has emerged: because there isn't any.
• Republican narrative, as provided by Breitbart. Democrats may fail to realize it, but Hunter's testimony does corroborate the suspicion that Pres. Biden was indeed involved in the family's business endeavors. Despite arguing that the deal signed with a Chinese state-linked firm contained no percentage for his father, Hunter refrained from denying that his father was the 'big guy.' And, as odd as it seems, he revealed that he joined the board of Ukraine's Burisma to counter Russian aggression.

Predictions