Hunter Biden and his uncle James Biden will reportedly get called to testify in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee if Republicans win control of the chamber in the midterm elections, with the GOP vowing to investigate the son and brother of President Joe Biden.
If Republicans win control of the Senate in November, and if Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) wins his Senate reelection bid and becomes chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee again, then the committee will seek testimony from the Biden family members, according to an “informed source” cited by Fox News.
The Senate is currently split 50-50 between Republicans and Democrats, with Democrats controlling the chamber because they won the presidency. Vice President Kamala Harris wields a tiebreaking vote.
The revelation about the potential grilling of the Biden family members came shortly after Grassley and Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), who is also up for reelection, shared more than 200 pages of investigative materials related to Hunter and James Biden with the prosecutor running the criminal investigation into President Biden’s son.
U.S. Attorney David Weiss, the Delaware prosecutor overseeing the Department of Justice’s case, received 221 pages of attachments on Wednesday packed with a host of details related to the younger Biden’s overseas business dealings in China, Ukraine, and elsewhere.
Weiss will be the one to decide whether to indict Hunter Biden.
FBI HAS ‘VOLUMINOUS EVIDENCE’ OF CRIMINAL MISCONDUCT BY JAMES AND HUNTER BIDEN
“In light of your and DOJ’s failure to respond to our legitimate congressional oversight requests and as part of our ongoing congressional investigation, we are transmitting to you over two hundred pages of records relating to the Biden family’s connections to the Chinese regime and persons connected to its military and intelligence elements,” Grassley and Johnson wrote to Weiss. “These records include over one hundred pages of unredacted and previously unreleased bank records relating to one of Hunter Biden’s businesses, Hudson West III.”
The senators added, “If you are conducting a full and complete investigation, you should already possess these records. In the case that you are not and do not possess these records, we suggest that you review them in detail.”
The FBI agents who have been investigating Hunter Biden believe they have unearthed enough evidence to charge him with crimes related to tax fraud and lying during his purchase of a handgun, according to numerous reports.
Questions remain about whether Weiss is seriously investigating more weighty crimes tied to money laundering and foreign lobbying.
“Based on recent protected disclosures to my office, the FBI has within its possession significant, impactful, and voluminous evidence with respect to potential criminal conduct by Hunter Biden and James Biden,” Grassley said in another October letter to Weiss, FBI Director Christopher Wray, and Attorney General Merrick Garland.
Hunter Biden controversially held a lucrative position on the board of Ukrainian energy giant Burisma while his father was vice president. He also pursued business deals in China and elsewhere during and after his father’s tenure, raking in millions.
Whistleblower allegations emerged this summer that FBI supervisory intelligence analyst Brian Auten opened an assessment in August 2020 that was used by FBI headquarters to mislabel accurate information about Hunter Biden as disinformation, according to disclosures made public by Grassley. Whistleblowers also said Timothy Thibault, the now-former FBI assistant special agent in charge of the Washington Field Office, shut down a line of inquiry into Hunter Biden in October 2020 despite the fact that some of the details were known to be true at the time.
Wray said he found these whistleblower allegations “deeply troubling” when asked about them in early August.
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The Senate Judiciary Committee has grilled family members of a current president in recent history, most notably when Donald Trump Jr., the son of then-President Donald Trump, testified in front of the committee in September 2017 about the now-infamous June 2016 meeting he attended at Trump Tower with Kremlin-linked lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya. Then-Chairman Grassley opposed Democratic efforts in 2018 to try to bring Trump Jr. back in front of the committee for a follow-up interview.
Trump Jr. also participated in an interview in front of the GOP-led Senate Intelligence Committee in June 2019 after he was subpoenaed to appear.
