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Wed Dec 27 2023

Marina Pitofsky | Associate Editor/Politics

Hi OnPolitics readers! Republicans leading the House's impeachment investigation into President Joe Biden want to know whether he was complicit in his son, Hunter Biden, defying a congressional subpoena.

🎤Hunter Biden speaks out: The GOP-led committees investigating Joe Biden issued a subpoena to Hunter Biden to testify in a deposition behind closed doors, USA TODAY's Ken Tran reports. Hunter Biden, who demanded to testify publicly instead, ignored Republicans and defended his father in rare public remarks on Capitol Hill.

❓What happened next? House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., and House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, sent a letter to the White House today asking for any communication between Hunter Biden, his representatives and Biden aides.

The letter highlights that White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre confirmed after Hunter Biden made remarks in Washington that the president was "certainly familiar with what his son was going to say."

🔄Catching up: Republicans have long alleged Joe Biden reaped personal benefits from his family's foreign business interests but have yet to produce evidence directly tying him to those dealings.

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