Hunter Biden Offers To Testify For GOP Probe — With Major Condition

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First Son Hunter Biden has offered to testify before a GOP-controlled congressional probe — provided they meet a major pre-condition.

Amid reports of a more aggressive strategy for the embattled younger Biden, attorney Abbe Lowell has sent a letter to the GOP-led House Oversight Committee, whose chairman is Rep. James Comer (R-KY).

In the letter, Lowell wrote that Hunter “will get right to it by agreeing to answer any pertinent and relevant question you or your colleagues might have, but — rather than subscribing to your cloaked, one-sided process — he will appear at a public Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing.”

“A public proceeding would prevent selective leaks, manipulated transcripts, doctored exhibits, or one-sided press statements,” Lowell added.

On Tuesday’s edition of CNN News Central, Katelyn Polantz reported the news:

KATE BOLDUAN: And this just in to CNN. Hunter Biden is willing to testify before lawmakers with something of a catch only if he can testify in public. Let’s go to CNN’s Katelyn Polantz. She has this new reporting for us just in. Katelyn, this is coming from Hunter Biden’s legal team. What does this mean then?

KATELYN POLANTZ: Well, Kate, let the negotiations begin. There was a subpoena earlier this month from the House Oversight Committee led by Republican James Comer to Hunter Biden, as well as to many other people, where the House Republicans are wanting to pry into the business transactions around the Biden family, specifically the president’s son, Hunter Biden, who has many business transactions and also foreign business connections.

They’ve wanted to build steam in an impeachment inquiry of the sitting president, Joe Biden, and they haven’t gotten very much off the ground with that as far as facts and evidence goes. And there’s even Republicans in the caucus that are doubting it.

But that subpoena for Hunter Biden is on the table and Congress has a lot of authority to call Hunter Biden in to testify before them whenever they have an inquiry like this. So Hunter Biden’s lawyers are responding now and saying, yes, he is willing to come and testify before your committee, but he’s not going to do it behind closed doors. He will do it publicly if you want.

We’re willing to do it on December 15th or I’m sorry, December 13th, the date that was on that subpoena. But we’re going to have to see if that’s exactly what happens here, if there’s additional negotiations about when this testimony would take place, if it would be in a different plan than publicly, as Hunter Biden’s team wants it to be done. Kate.

Watch above via CNN News Central.