It took a lot of hide for Hunter Biden to crash a House Oversight Committee hearing convened to hold him in contempt for blowing off a congressional subpoena, a crime which carries a punishment of as much as a year in jail and a $100,000 fine.
But if you think of politics as a tawdry reality show, the spectacle made perfect sense in the narcissistic story arc of the first son’s drama-filled life, in which his “sugar brother,” Hollywood lawyer Kevin Morris, has a documentary crew trailing him all over the country.
In this narrative, Hunter’s ambush appearance in front of his congressional tormentors Wednesday was a cinematic climax of defiant bravado in which his antihero “owned” the GOP.
You could tell from Morris’ delighted smile that all was going to plan as Republican committee members such as Nancy Mace played their part hyperventilating about Hunter’s lack of “balls” and “white privilege,” and Democrat grandstanders like Jamie Raskin and Dan Goldman ladled out rich globs of hypocrisy, while chairman James Comer nervously swilled a bottle of water and called for order in the vain hope that the whole show would not collapse into high farce.
As theater it was edge-of-theseat gold.
Legally, well, Abbe Lowell, Hunter’s high-priced attorney, went along with the stunt, so he must have thought it was worth the risk, despite his furrowed brow.
After all, Hunter, 53, was never going to testify to Congress, whatever he pretends about a public hearing.
He would have pleaded the Fifth Amendment to avoid incriminating himself in the felony trials he is facing.
After his sweetheart plea deal with prosecutors collapsed in July, under the weight of IRS whistleblower testimony alleging corrupt favoritism in the five-year criminal investigation in Delaware into his business activities, run by US Attorney David Weiss, Hunter now is facing felony charges on tax fraud and gun violations.
He is due in court Thursday in California on nine federal tax charges.
His lawyers know he can’t afford to testify under oath to Congress for hours on end.
hunter deserves the max amount of punishment, I would say allowed by law, but apparently the law doesn’t apply to him
Daddy is the WORSE !!!!!! Far More than Hunter !!!!!
They are THUMBING their nose at the Law in this country & showing they CAN get away with it !! Above the Law !
They show they ARE the Elites & the so called WHITE SUPREMACISTS !!!! Democrats Above the LAWS !!!!!!!
They are the KKK & Blacks still vote for them !!!!!!!!