Republican members of a House panel sent letters to the White House and the National Archives demanding records of any communication between Hunter Biden and the White House during the two terms of the Obama administration, when his father was Vice President.
The Republicans claim Hunter Biden and the rest of the family have made a financial killing off his father’s political influence as a longtime senator from Delaware and as vice president for eight years in the Obama administration.
“Hunter Biden has particularly benefited from his father’s success in politics, from managing a Ukrainian energy conglomerate, to selling cobalt mines in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to connecting his father to Kazakhstani oil oligarchs, and preventing a Romanian real estate tycoon’s conviction for bribery charges,” the Republicans allege in their letters.
The House Oversight Committee’s concerns are not specific to his communications during the Obama administration, many lawmakers are raising questions about Hunter’s recent interactions with Russian’s and the effect that may have on the President’s decisions.
“Hunter Biden’s connections throughout the Russian sphere of influence have now become especially relevant in the fast-moving and developing Russian war in Ukraine,” the Republicans on the House Oversight Committee write in the letters, which were obtained by The New York Post.
“If the Russian government is attempting to influence American policy in Ukraine by exploiting Hunter Biden’s connection with his father — the President of the United States — the American people deserve to know it,” the letters said.
House Republicans are eager for answers as Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the ranking Republican on the committee, said to the New York Post:
“The days of Hunter Biden using his father to line his own pockets are numbered. For years, concerns over Hunter’s shady foreign business dealings and the possibility he’s selling access to the President of the United States have been inexcusably ignored by Congressional Democrats,” Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the ranking Republican on the committee, said in a statement to The Post.
“It is the inclusion of Hunter Biden — decidedly not a ‘Democratic official’ — that raises serious questions. The nation’s adversaries apparently see the president’s son as a pressure point to exploit,” they say in the letter.
Finally, Rep. Elise Stefanik the No. 3 Republican in the House, made a statement promising a subpoena.
“We will subpoena Hunter Biden,” she said “It should concern every American that they did this for the Biden family’s financial gain, which came at the cost of our national security,” Stefanik said of the evidence on the laptop.