Hunter Biden reportedly says father ‘never’ involved in businesses in opening remarks to House committees – live | US elections 2024

Hunter Biden’s deposition is happening with the oversight and judiciary committees behind closed doors, so we don’t know what he’s telling the lawmakers, or what they are asking him.

But Florida Democratic Jared Moskowitz says that it has thus far been “BORING”:

The top Democrat on the House oversight committee, Jamie Raskin, described the Republican impeachment investigation into Joe Biden as a “comedy of errors”, and said the GOP has failed to prove its corruption allegations against the president.

He made the remarks as Hunter Biden testified before the committee:

Hunter Biden took particular umbrage at the GOP’s reliance on discredited sources to attack him and his father.

The weaknesses of some of the evidence Republicans have used to claim corruption on his part and Joe Biden’s became apparent earlier this month when Alexander Smirnov, a former FBI informant, was indicted for lying to the government, and prosecutors later revealed that information he had provided about Hunter Biden came from Russian intelligence.

Here’s what Biden told the oversight and judiciary committees about that:

You have built your entire partisan house of cards on lies told by the likes of Gal Luft, Tony Bobulinski, Alexander Smirnov and Jason Galanis. Luft, who is a fugitive, has been indicted for his lies and other crimes; Smirnov, who has made you dupes in carrying out a Russian disinformation campaign waged against my father, has been indicted for his lies; Bobulinski, who has been exposed for the many false statements he has made, and Galanis, who is serving 14 years in prison for fraud. Rather than follow the facts as they have been laid out before you in bank records, financial statements, correspondence and other witness testimony, you continue your frantic search to prove the lies you, and those you rely on, keep peddling. Yes, they are lies.

Hunter Biden says father was ‘never’ involved in businesses, attacks ‘partisan political pursuit of my dad’ – report

Hunter Biden has arrived on Capitol Hill for his behind-closed-doors deposition before the Republican-led House oversight and judiciary committees, which are leading the impeachment of Joe Biden:

Republicans have for years said Joe Biden illicitly benefited from his son Hunter’s business dealings overseas, but have yet to turn up any proof. Today, Republican oversight committee chair James Comer was asked about this, leading to a testy back and forth with a reporter:

The Democratic party chair, Jaime Harrison, said he expects this year’s election in Michigan will be “close and tough” for Joe Biden, but the president will ultimately win the state:

Democrats have long counted on support from Michigan voters, but that faith was rattled in 2016, when Donald Trump won the state, part of a collapse in Democratic support along the Great Lakes that was crucial in putting him into the White House. Biden won Michigan back in 2020.

Here’s more on the “uncommitted” campaign’s success in the Michigan Democratic primary, from the Guardian’s Oliver Laughland:

Standing before shimmering gold curtains on Tuesday evening, the mayor of Dearborn, Abdullah Hammoud, spoke with pride about his city.

“We had the audacity to choose people over political party,” he said. “We had the damn audacity to put people over president.”

For many gathered at this sprawling banquet hall in the heart of America’s most concentrated Muslim population, the outcome of last night’s Democratic primary in Michigan was beyond even the boldest of predictions.

Although Joe Biden took the state, it was the hastily organized but committed grassroots campaign against the president’s support for the Israeli government’s war with Gaza that took the night. Organizers with Listen to Michigan, a group that urged voters to withdraw support for Biden and instead vote uncommitted, had hoped for a showing of 10,000 votes. They returned more than 100,000 – a clear demonstration of the growing fractures among the diverse coalition that brought Biden to power in 2020.

It is a warning shot to the Democratic party, and shows more signs of expanding than diminishing as the primary season wears on.

Also declaring victory is Abandon Biden, a group opposed to the president for his support of Israel.

“In Michigan’s primary last night, we witnessed not just a rejection of Joe Biden but a searing condemnation of his presidency’s moral vacuity. Election results reveal that precincts with Arab and Muslim American populations have gone from supporting Biden by 90% in 2020 to thoroughly rejecting Biden,” the group said in a press release.

It continued:

Our call to ‘Abandon Biden’ wasn’t just heard; it roared across Michigan, echoing our refusal to stand with a president whose policies reek of genocide.

The unprecedented support for ‘uncommitted’ in Michigan makes it clear that complicity in genocide isn’t up for debate. It also signals that what awaits Biden in November isn’t a guaranteed victory. And what awaits the Democratic Party is irrelevance.

One of the most prominent backers of the “uncommitted” campaign is Abraham Aiyash, the Democratic majority leader of Michigan’s house of representatives.

Here’s what Aiyash, who Politico reports is the first Arab American to hold his leadership position in the country, had to say about the campaign’s performance last night:

‘Uncommitted’ campaign backers say they sent Biden a message with success in Michigan

Strong showing by Gaza protest vote adds to Biden’s headaches in swing state Michigan