The pinnacle of the House Oversight Committee has demanded that Hunter Biden turn over any records related to his father’s alleged “involvement” in controversial overseas business dealings that would imperil American national security.
In a Wednesday letter to the primary son, committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) accused him and his business associates of getting “peddled influence to generate tens of millions of dollars for the Biden family.”
“Evidence shows that you just engaged in foreign business deals with individuals who were connected to the Chinese Communist Party and received significant amounts of cash from foreign firms without providing any known legitimate services,” he wrote.
“You and your associates’ financial conduct raises significant ethics and national security concerns. The Committee requests documents and communications related to our investigation of President Biden’s involvement in your financial conduct.”
Comer said the committee needed the knowledge to find out whether the 80-year-old president “has compromised our national security on the expense of the American people.”
On Wednesday, the committee held a hearing into Twitter’s acknowledged suppression of The Post’s October 2020 scoop that exposed the existence of Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop.
Comer’s letter gave Hunter Biden a Feb. 22 deadline to show over any relevant records involving him and his dad starting from Jan. 20, 2009 — when the elder Biden was sworn in for the primary of his two terms as vp — to Jan. 20, 2021, when he was sworn in as president.
Within the wake of the scandal over President Biden’s possession of classified documents, Comer also demanded that his son, 53, cough up “any document, record, or communication designated classified by any government body, including but not limited to any constituent agency of the US Intelligence Community.”
Similar letters were also sent to President Biden’s brother, James Biden, and Eric Schwerin, a former Hunter Biden business partner.
Hunter Biden’s lawyer, Abbe Lowell, responded to Comer with a letter that said his committee didn’t have the ability to demand records from his client resulting from a 2020 ruling by the US Supreme Court in a case involving congressional subpoenas for then-President Donald Trump’s funds and tax returns.
Lowell also invoked the classic children’s fantasy book “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” to accuse Comer of attempting to “make every aspect of [Hunter] Biden’s personal life your political weapon.”
“Peddling your individual inaccurate and baseless conclusions under the guise of an actual investigation, turns the Committee into ‘Wonderland’ and also you into the Queen of Hearts shouting, ‘sentence first, verdict afterwards,’” Lowell wrote.
Requests for comment from James Biden and Schwerin weren’t immediately returned.
President Biden has repeatedly denied any involvement in his son’s business dealings, including even discussing them.
But emails from Hunter Biden’s laptop showed that he introduced his dad to a top exec on the Ukrainian energy company Burisma in 2015, while Hunter Biden was serving on its board.
Other emails showed how Hunter Biden pursued a lucrative cope with a Chinese energy conglomerate, CEFC China Energy Co., that included a plan for 10% of the equity to be “held by H for the large guy.”
One other partner, former British special forces officer James Gilliar, also referred to Joe Biden as “the Big Guy” in a 2020 message prompted by The Post’s scoop about Hunter Biden’s laptop, Post columnist Miranda Devine reported earlier this yr.
CEFC paid entities controlled by Hunter and James Biden a complete of $4.8 million during a 14-month period that began in August 2017, in response to The Washington Post, which last yr independently authenticated nearly 22,000 emails from the laptop.
Last week, Lowell sent letters to the US Justice Department, the IRS and the Delaware Attorney General’s Office searching for probes of several allies of Trump, 76, and others in reference to “the exposure, exploitation, and manipulation of [Hunter] Biden’s private and private information” on the laptop.
Lowell reportedly followed up those requests with letters directing the potential targets — who include former Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former White House adviser Steve Bannon — to retain any records that is perhaps needed in reference to future litigation.