Hunter Biden declines GOP invitation to testify publicly before House committee

Washington — Hunter Biden, President Biden's son, will not testify publicly before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee at a hearing scheduled for next week, his lawyer informed the panel's GOP chairman in a letter Wednesday.GOP Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, head of the Oversight Committee, announced last week that he invited Hunter Biden and several former business associates to answer questions at the hearing set for March 20.

Comer's request for Hunter Biden to appear in public comes after he testified behind closed doors before members of two House panels in a deposition late last month. During the nearly seven-hour session, the younger Biden reiterated that his father was not involved in his foreign business dealings, and called on Republicans to 'put an end to this baseless and destructive political charade.

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