Hunter Biden's plea deal with the prosecutor who has been probing him has rankled numerous GOP lawmakers, who this week leveled new accusations against the Bidens.
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Rather than assuaging Republicans' longstanding focus on Hunter Biden, the plea deal his lawyers brokered with federal prosecutors this week appears to have only further animated lawmakers' efforts to target the Biden family. Republican leaders called the agreement, which still requires approval from a federal judge, a "sweetheart" deal that would undermine faith in the criminal justice system.
Hunter Biden speaks to a person during an official state dinner hosted by President Joe Biden for India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the White House in Washington, D.C., on June 22, 2023.In July 2017, Joe Biden's term as vice president had already ended and he held no political office, despite what some Republicans incorrectly suggested on Thursday. At the time, Hunter Biden, by his own admission, was in the throes of his crack addiction.
If the message is in fact real and its contents taken at face value, it would certainly raise political and ethical questions for the White House. Hunter Biden and his uncles, James and Frank, have a lengthy record ofto secure business deals without Joe Biden's knowledge, which could have been the case in this circumstance. But if Joe Biden wasn't in office at the time, it would not necessarily amount to evidence of a crime.
On Tuesday, after weeks of contentious negotiations that culminated in the committee's threat to hold FBI Director Christopher Wray in contempt of Congress, Comer was given access the redacted FD-1023. He told reporters afterward that the exercise was "a total waste of my time," as more than half of the document, he said, was redacted.
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