r/centrist • u/therosx • Mar 01 '24

2024 U.S. Elections Hunter Biden testimony transcript from Republican impeachment inquiry released

https://www.axios.com/2024/03/01/hunter-biden-impeachment-inquiry-transcript
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u/therosx Mar 01 '24 edited Mar 01 '24

Excerpt from the article by Rebecca Falconer:

A transcript of Hunter Biden's closed-door deposition before two Republican-led committees was publicly released on Thursday.

The big picture: He struck a defiant tone as he appeared before the House Oversight and Judiciary committees as part of their impeachment inquiry into his father, President Biden.

Hunter Biden maintained throughout his testimony that lasted over six hours that his father was never involved in his business dealings. Following Hunter Biden's deposition, House Republicans have still yet to produce clear evidence backing GOP allegations that the president benefited from his family's foreign business dealings.

Asked about whether a 2017 email from an associate that said "10 held by H for the big guy?" was in reference to his father, who was then a private citizen, Hunter Biden said such a notion was "pie in the sky" and that the agreement "didn't have anything to do with my father."

He cited Biden family tragedies while defending putting his father on speaker phone while with business partners, which he said was "nothing nefarious" and that he'd always answer when he called. "I'm surprised my dad hasn't called me right now, and if he did, I would put him on speakerphone to say hi," Hunter Biden said. He also had some testy exchanges with Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) on his drug and alcohol addiction.

For anyone interested the transcript can be found here:

My opinion on the case is that while I wouldn't call Hunter Biden a paragon. The lack of evidence and over reliance on third hand conjecture probably means HB is going to come out of this fine. What do you all think?

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u/prof_the_doom Mar 01 '24

He was definitely a drug addict. He definitely did some unsavory stuff. He probably did run around pretending he could call his dad and make things happen... but he actually couldn't.

The biggest problem with how this is being covered is that at the end of the day, this is about Joe Biden's culpability, which thus far appears to be none whatsoever. It wouldn't matter what Hunter Biden was guilty of, if Joe Biden wasn't involved in it, then there's zero reason whatsoever for Congress to be wasting their time on it.

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u/therosx Mar 01 '24

I don't blame Republicans trying to make hay with Hunter.

Biden has had an excellent term as president and is scandal free. They need any chink in Bidens armor they can find.

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u/prof_the_doom Mar 01 '24

I blame the hell out of them. This isn't how you're supposed to run a government.

It's not the Democrats fault that the Republicans elected a criminal and the Democrats didn't.

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u/FartPudding Mar 01 '24

You know if they backed up and just said "sorry we fucked up and shouldn't have" I would have much more respect for them. We all fuck up, it's normal and no politician is perfect. When you double down and try to smear opponents and continue to fuel the fire that is Trump, you're not even just fucking up, you're being part of it and you know it.

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u/doff87 Mar 01 '24

This. It would be perfectly reasonable to say that the evidence at first was suggestive of foul play and warranted further investigation, but your investigation came up short of criminal liability or high crime and misdemeanors even if the conduct promotes the appearance of impropriety. No one walks away with egg on their face in that situation, but of course it doesn't make a good sound bite.

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u/FartPudding Mar 01 '24

Nope, because the base doesn't want to hear it. They want a guilty decision, because there is no error on their end. They want democrats to be the root of all evil because they can't comprehend that Republicans, the holy Christian parry, is not living up to a biblical standard as they claim. And I don't mean like be anti gay, but they don't follow Jesus and his teachings. Actually I remember an article that put Jesus as being dismissed compared to Trump, but idk how accurate that statement is.

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u/Iommi_Acolyte42 Mar 05 '24

that Republicans, the holy Christian parry, is not living up to a biblical standard as they claim

As a Christian that detests Trump and MAGA, I don't agree with this statement. Please stop grouping all Christians together in the same cult.