Kevin McCarthy claims Biden ignored ‘many’ information requests sent by House GOP on Hunter
House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy suggested he’d open a Congressional inquiry into Hunter Biden and the president’s brother James Biden if his party won the majority in November
House Republicans have ‘made almost 100 requests for information’ on the business dealings of President Joe Biden‘s family and claim ‘many’ have been left unanswered, senior lawmakers wrote on Friday night.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, along with the ranking members on the House Judiciary and Oversight committees Reps. Jim Jordan and James Comer, suggested they could open Congressional inquires into the Biden family – specifically the president’s son Hunter – if Republicans win the majority of Congressional seats in November.
They claim to have uncovered evidence that the president’s relatives profited off his years-long career in Washington ‘despite Democrats’ refusal to cooperate’ with those efforts’ in an op-ed published in the New York Post.
In October 2020 the Post was the first outlet to report on the contents of a hard drive from a computer belonging to Hunter Biden, which included salacious images depicting sex acts and drug use.
But the main controversy arose from emails and documents purporting to show Hunter Biden leveraging his family name for profit.
The hard drive was authenticated by the Post and later by DailyMail.com, but it continued to be dismissed in the mainstream media until it was also verified by the Washington Post earlier this year.
‘Congressional Republicans’ investigations to date have found Biden family members used their connections with Joe to enrich themselves through expectations of access and promises about what a Biden administration might do,’ McCarthy and the others wrote in the op-ed.
‘We’ve made almost 100 requests for information relating to Biden family schemes. Many, including every request made to the Biden administration, have been ignored.’
In a Friday night op-ed, he and two other senior Republican lawmakers outline their case against the president’s family
The White House did not immediately return DailyMail.com’s request for comment.
They referenced as evidence Hunter Biden’s time on the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma despite having no prior experience in the sector. His father had a leading role in anti-corruption efforts in the region at the time as US vice president.
McCarthy also brought up an excerpt from a phone call between Hunter Biden and British artist Phillipa Horan in which the now-president’s son bragged in 2018 about his influence on his father.
‘He’ll talk about anything that I want him to, that he believes in,’ Hunter Biden said according to the Washington Examiner. ‘If I say it’s important to me, then he will work a way in which to make it a part of his platform.’
Comer wrote a letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen in late May referencing a CBS News report detailing suspicions raised over financial activity of the president’s son and brother James Biden.
‘According to recent media reports, more than 150 of Hunter Biden and the Biden network’s international business transactions have generated suspicious activity reports by U.S. banks for further review by the Treasury Department to determine if there is illegal activity or a threat to national security,’ Comer wrote at the time.
He, McCarthy and Jordan wrote over the weekend that the ‘Bidens were paid hundreds of thousands – if not millions – despite performing no discernible work.’
To date, the president himself has not been implicated in any wrongdoing linked to his family’s business dealings.
But House Republicans claim the smoking gun lies in an email recovered from the laptop that appears to be dividing equity in a Chinese business venture between Hunter Biden and his associates. In the email, he appears to ask for 10 percent to be set aside for ‘the big guy’ – who GOP lawmakers have suggested to mean Biden himself.
‘We have uncovered some answers, but many questions remain. In November, the American people will decide whether they accept being told what information they are allowed to know by a colluding media, including who is making policy decisions for this country and for whose interests,’ the lawmakers wrote.
‘A Republican majority will be committed to uncovering the facts the Democrats, Big Tech and the legacy media have suppressed.’
Late last month, DailyMail.com obtained a voicemail from the president to his son about a New York Times report detailing his business in China.
‘Hey pal, it’s Dad. It’s 8:15 on Wednesday night. If you get a chance just give me a call. Nothing urgent. I just wanted to talk to you. I thought the article released online, it’s going to be printed tomorrow in the Times, was good. I think you’re clear. And anyway if you get a chance, give me a call, I love you,’ the president said according to the recording.
Biden critics claim the voicemail is proof that the president lied when he said he never discussed his son’s business deals.