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January 10, 2024

No balls.... Just pussies....

‘You have no balls’: Hunter Biden derails GOP vote to hold him in contempt

The president’s son made his second straight surprise appearance designed to rattle the Republicans investigating him. It seemed to work.

By JORDAIN CARNEY and ANTHONY ADRAGNA

Hunter Biden made a short surprise appearance Wednesday at the House Oversight Committee’s meeting on whether to hold him in contempt of Congress, prompting some fireworks from Republicans.

Both the Judiciary and Oversight Committees are expected to advance recommendations along party lines that Hunter Biden be held in contempt after he skipped a closed-door interview last month. The appearance from the president's son set off some Republicans, with Rep. Nancy Mace (R-N.C.) saying: "I think he should be hauled off to jail right now."

"You are the epitome of white privilege, coming to the Oversight Committee, spitting in our face, ignoring a congressional subpoena to be deposed — what are you afraid of?" she added, speaking to him from the dais. "You have no balls.”

Hunter Biden left the meeting shortly after he arrived, when Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) tried to start questioning him. “Apparently you’re afraid of my words,” she said as Hunter Biden walked out of the room.

Biden's attorney, Abbe Lowell, said it was further evidence that Republicans were ignoring his attempts to cooperate by testifying at a public hearing. Hunter Biden had also showed up on Capitol Hill in December on the day he was subpoenaed by the Oversight Committee, insisting on public testimony, though Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) had repeatedly said the subpoena was for a private hearing with the panel.

"The Republican chairs have today commandeered an unprecedented resolution to hold someone in contempt who has offered to publicly answer all their proper questions. What are they afraid of?" Lowell said in a statement.

Meanwhile, Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) argued that the president's son was "calling the chairman's bluff" by showing up to the meeting. Moskowitz tried to add the names of three Republicans — Reps. Andy Biggs (Ariz.), Jim Jordan (Ohio) and Scott Perry (Pa.) — to the contempt resolution and said he’d have voted for it if Republicans agreed.

“This is the strangest thing I have ever seen in Congress," Moskowitz said.

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