Hunter Biden gave Congress ‘middle finger’ and his alleged DOJ guardian ‘didn’t answer many questions’: Comer

WASHINGTON — Hunter Biden gave a “middle finger” to Congress by refusing to appear for a deposition this week — while a former Justice Department official who allegedly protected the first son and President Biden in a criminal investigation “didn’t answer many questions,” House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer said Friday.

Hunter, 53, gave a speech Wednesday outside the Capitol rather than appear for a deposition before the Oversight Committee — claiming his father was not “financially involved” with his foreign business dealings, despite evidence Joe Biden met with partners in most of Hunter’s major international ventures from countries such as China and Ukraine.

“We had over a dozen members of Congress of both parties in there, we had dozens of staffers in there, we had tens of thousands of pages of documents, hundreds of specific questions and he just goes out and basically gives Congress the middle finger,” Comer told Fox News’ “America’s Newsroom.”

“[He] goes out and says he wants to make a statement and have a press conference. Then when he got through making the statement asking for pity, then he drove off in his car and wouldn’t answer any questions,” Comer added.

“Just because the DOJ, the IRS, the FBI and every other government agency that was supposed to catch people like Hunter Biden for the crimes people like Hunter Biden committed, it doesn’t mean that we’re going to turn a blind eye and treat him any differently. He’s gonna be treated just like everyone else.”

Comer answered “yes” when asked if he would seek a contempt of Congress charge, which would cue up a likely House floor vote to refer the matter to President Biden’s Justice Department, which would make a decision on whether or not to prosecute the alleged crime.

The Justice Department recently won convictions of former President Donald Trump advisers Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro for similarly flouting subpoenas from the House select committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.

Bannon was sentenced to four months in prison and Navarro, who will be sentenced next month, faces a minimum of two months behind bars.

Former Delaware assistant US attorney Lesley Wolf appeared Thursday before the House Judiciary Committee but didn’t have much to say, Comer added.

“It’s my understanding she didn’t answer many questions in that deposition,” he said.

Wolf was a central figure in the alleged Justice Department coverup of a criminal investigation of Hunter Biden for tax fraud and related crimes, such as foreign-lobbying registration violations.

Wolf repeatedly steered investigators away from looking into Joe Biden’s role in foreign income, even when messages directly implicated him, and allegedly tipped off Hunter’s legal team to a planned search of a storage unit and an interview approach, ruining both efforts, according to IRS whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler.

In addition to potential new contempt charges, Hunter Biden faces federal tax fraud charges in Los Angeles and gun charges in Delaware — after walking away from a probation-only plea deal in July upon demanding courtroom assurances that he had immunity for other possible crimes, such as violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act, which would implicate his father.

The generous plea deal, which critics decried as a “sweetheart” arrangement, was announced in June after Shapley and Ziegler alleged preferential treatment and misleading testimony to Congress involving the case.

The first son’s refusal to testify to the Oversight Committee came hours before the House of Representatives voted to formally authorize an impeachment inquiry into President Biden that began on Sept. 12 without a floor vote.

All Republicans voted in favor and all Democrats were opposed.