According to a Tuesday letter addressed to committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.), Biden agreed to testify before the committee on Dec. 13 — as long as the hearing was public. In the letter, Biden’s attorneys quoted Comer’s own demand, issued in November, that given Biden’s “willingness to address this investigation publicly up to this point, we would expect him to be willing to testify before Congress.”
The letter added that open-door proceedings “would prevent selective leaks, manipulated transcripts, doctored exhibits, or one-sided press statements.”
Republicans would not have it. “Hunter Biden is trying to play by his own rules instead of following the rules required of everyone else,” Comer wrote in a statement. “That won’t stand with House Republicans.”
They’re so transparently corrupt it’s not even surprising anymore. They’ve become like cockroaches that are no longer afraid of the light.
I actively try to avoid killing cockroaches - they’re useful to the ecosystem. Republicans, not so much.
I doubt I’d extend them the same courtesy.
Well put.
Yes, that is exactly right. That started sometime in the summer of 2016: they suddenly stopped apologizing, and haven’t apologized since. I remember that’s when it changed; some R had some new scandal (no surprise) but his response was basically, “So?” and that was kind of a shock. It’s like the fix was in, and of course now we know that it was.
That’s been true since at least 2016.