‘Very Important Point!’ CNN Says Hunter Biden Charges Not Connected To President Biden — Don’t Help Impeachment

CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig told anchor Poppy Harlow that the charges against Hunter Biden don’t connect to President Joe Biden or support the Republican impeachment inquiry that’s nearing a formal vote.

Department of Justice Special Counsel David Weiss handed down a nine-count indictment against Hunter Biden Thursday on federal tax charges in a case that will be presided over by Trump-appointed Federal District Court Judge Mark Scarsi.

House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer (R-KY) — who is leading a renewed charge to formalize the Republican impeachment inquiry — pounced on the news to slam the president.

On Friday morning’s edition of CNN This Morning, Honig pushed back on Comer when asked how the charges affect the impeachment inquiry:

POPPY HARLOW: What about this push for an impeachment? Because I will say California and Delaware are the two jurisdictions where when this plea deal was about to happen, critics of it, Republicans were pointing and saying, what about those two jurisdictions? Why has nothing been brought here.

ELIE HONIG: So no mention of Joe Biden, no reference to Joe Biden in the indictment. James Comber, of course, is seizing on this. And he says that “Hunter Biden’s corporate entities implicated by today’s indictments funneled foreign cash that landed in Joe Biden’s bank account.”.

Little bit of sleight of hand happening here, though, because Comer’s focused on the payments, the $7 million that Hunter Biden received. But that’s not the crime. The indictment makes clear there is no charge– There could have been a charge of bribery. If there was bribery, there could have been a charge of foreign lobbying if that was the case. There is no such charge. The crime here is the tax part of that. And I don’t see any link in the indictment, or even in Comer’s statement, to Joe Biden. So we’ll see. We’ll see if James Comer has the goods.

POPPY HARLOW: Very important point!

ELIE HONIG: Yeah, I’ll look, he’s been promising quite a bit in this impeachment inquiry. The link is not there. We’ll see if he finds something new. They’ve had a year to do it. We’ll see where they go.

Republicans have been conducting an impeachment inquiry — without a formal vote — despite widespread acknowledgment by journalists and even other Republicans that there is “no evidence” of wrongdoing by President Biden.

Watch above via CNN This Morning.