House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) said Hunter Biden’s foiled plea agreement means his lawyers cannot continue to “intimidate” witnesses.
“These lawyers have intimidated many of the witnesses that we’ve tried to bring forward for depositions and transcribed interviews,” Comer told Hannity. “They’ve told them things like, ‘You’re only going to implicate yourself. We’re not going to get in trouble.’”
HUNTER BIDEN PLEA DEAL COLLAPSES IN COURT AS JUDGE THROWS ‘CURVEBALL’
President Joe Biden’s son left his federal court hearing in Delaware on Wednesday with his planned plea agreement having fallen apart after lawyers disagreed about the scope of the deal and the presiding judge raised “concerns” about its terms.
Ahead of the hearing, U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika also threatened sanctions against Hunter Biden’s attorneys after a member of his legal team purportedly “misrepresented her identity” to court officials in hopes of removing a brief about IRS whistleblowers’ testimony from the court docket.
“Hopefully the witnesses, like Devon Archer and the others who we’re going to be bringing before the committee this summer, hopefully they saw what happened in that court today,” Comer said. “And that these lawyers aren’t going to continue to get away with the shenanigans that they tried to pull yesterday when they lied and said they were part of Ways and Means staff to get something removed.”
“Those days are over, and we’re in control of this thing,” Comer continued. “I believe that if these witnesses will come forward and tell the truth, I think the American people are going to be in for a big eye-opener with respect to Joe Biden.”
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) joined Comer on Hannity and championed the judge’s decision not to sign off on the plea agreement, saying it was “a win for equal application of the law.”
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House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-MO) also told Hannity that as the investigation into the Biden family’s business dealings continues, the consistency of whistleblowers’ testimony makes U.S. Attorney David Weiss’s words even less credible.
“One important point is that the two IRS whistleblowers that came forward, that testified in Jamie Comer’s committee — their stories have stayed the same,” Smith said. “The stories that have not stayed the same are those of prosecutor Weiss and also the Biden family. That is the issue. We have really credible whistleblowers come forward, and they are all singing from the same tune.”
