Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) said Hunter Biden approached her during a congressional hearing on Wednesday and that he told her he was not “the evil man” Mace makes him out to be.
The House Oversight Committee had Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, deliver a deposition in front of the committee as the House is seeking answers into the foreign business dealings conducted by the president’s son. During the hearing’s first break, Mace said Hunter Biden made “a beeline” in her direction and shook her hand, telling her he was not an evil person.
“And so my response, Jesse, is: ‘No, he was being defiant and being dishonest in his testimony,'” Mace said on Fox News’s Jesse Watters Primetime. “And I told him that his testimony directly contradicted the testimony of other witnesses that we’ve had come through there, including business partners and good friends of his, admittedly, as he said today in the deposition, but he contradicted people today.”
Mace also described Hunter Biden as being “overconfident” in his congressional appearance, noting how he and his lawyer Abbe Lowell were “patting each other on the back.” One aspect of Hunter Biden’s testimony that Mace was critical of was how the president’s son would answer questions, claiming he sounded like “the king of Georgetown” when answering a question he wanted to answer but blaming his drug addiction when answering a question he did not want to answer.
“And so you can’t have your cake and eat it, too,” Mace said. “Which is it? Were you this savvy business globe-trotter that traveled around the world without experience, or were you this conflicted person with drug problems?”
The South Carolina congresswoman has spoken out against the president’s son in the past, suggesting that Hunter Biden ought to be “arrested right here, right now, and go straight to jail” when he appeared in Congress last month.
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The investigation into Hunter Biden led by House Republicans is part of the party’s plan to impeach the president over his possible involvement in his son’s foreign business dealings. The party plans to host a public hearing on the impeachment inquiry into the president, as House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) stated after Wednesday’s deposition that the president’s son made “some contradictory statements that I think need further review.”
Comer added he would release the transcript of the deposition within the next two or three days, as long as he and Oversight Committee ranking member Jamie Raskin (D-MD) both approve of it.
