This is just political grandstanding on behalf of the Democrats once again. Why can’t we, as the American people, just have the truth without politics? It’s obvious something is awry but due to legal filings and posturing, again another flim-flam of the American people is occurring. Half of the American populace wants there to be justice no matter who you are, transparent and equal; however, the other half wants to hide behind legal procedural rules and maneuver, steering the narrative in a way to control the masses. When I say 50/50 on the people, I don’t mean Democrats and Republicans; there are equal parts of corruption on both sides. The problem with our society is that half of that half is not concerned as long as there is beer, Monday night football, and tik-tok. Hence, we are losing leadership in the world and morally in the US. We are now relegated to taking taxpayer dollars and bribing other countries or putting them on the dole just to cooperate.
Being Duped: The American People
Source: MSNBC
Hunter Biden wants to answer Republicans’ questions in view of the public. House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, on the other hand, prefers secrecy.
By Steve Benen
When House Republicans issued a subpoena to Hunter Biden three weeks ago, it was far from surprising. President Joe Biden’s son has been at the center of GOP conspiracy theories for quite a while, and it was inevitable that the party would take this step.
Shortly thereafter, Hunter Biden’s lawyer, Abbe Lowell, issued a statement deriding the subpoena as “yet another political stunt aimed at distracting from the glaring failure of [House Oversight Committee Chair James] Comer and his MAGA allies to prove a single one of their wild and now discredited conspiracies about the Biden family.”
But the same statement went on to note that Hunter Biden still welcomed the opportunity to speak to the GOP-led committee “in a public forum and at the right time.”
Three weeks later, the use of the word “public” is relevant anew. NBC News reported:
Hunter Biden is open to testifying publicly before the Republican-led House Oversight Committee on Dec. 13, his lawyer said in a letter sent to the panel Tuesday. House Republicans subpoenaed the president’s son early this month and summoned him to appear for a closed-door transcribed interview as part of an escalation of Republicans’ impeachment inquiry into the president.
“We have seen you use closed-door sessions to manipulate, even distort the facts and misinform the public. We therefore propose opening the door,” Lowell said in his latest correspondence with Comer.
The attorney raised a legitimate point. Comer and his colleagues have spent months playing fast and loose with closed-door testimony, cherry-picking quotes as part of a clumsy partisan crusade. With this in mind, Lowell doesn’t trust Republicans on the Oversight Committee to deal with the matter responsibly, so he suggested letting some sunshine in: Let everyone, including the media and the public, see both the questions and the answers.
In theory, this seemed like the sort of thing GOP members would immediately embrace. Why not create a public spectacle? Why not let Americans see the grilling that Republicans are eager to subject the presidential son to?
But in practice, it’s apparently not working out that way: Comer rejected the idea of a public hearing, declaring that Hunter Biden would have to answer questions behind closed doors, far from view.
