Comer defends Hunter Biden's private deposition, promises to share the transcript, and calls for a public hearing.

According to Comer, the Hunter Biden investigation is “the most transparent major congressional investigation in history.”
The transcript of Hunter Biden’s deposition will be released later this month, according to House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, and a public hearing for the president’s son will be scheduled after he testifies behind closed doors as part of the “most transparent major congressional investigation in history.”

Earlier this month, Rep. Comer (R-Ky.) subpoenaed Hunter Biden for a deposition. The deposition is scheduled for December 13.

“Democrats always create a false narrative ahead of potential peril,” Comer said, using Hunter Biden’s laptop as an example of Democrats pushing the false narrative that the laptop was the result of Russian disinformation.

“We have always planned on deposing the key witness in this entire investigation — that’s the president’s son,” Comer said in a statement.

According to Comer, his committee has “accumulated tens of thousands of pages of documents.”

“We have hundreds of questions that we need to ask Hunter Biden,” Comer said, stressing that a public hearing is not the best place to receive answers to all of them. “If you have a public hearing, we might be able to get through 35, 40 questions in five minutes each way.” We can easily get 400 or more questions in during a deposition.”

Comer emphasized that Hunter Biden’s deposition “will be transparent.”

“We will release the transcripts,” that’s what he stated. “We always do unless they contain classified information.”

Comer went on to say, “This has been the most transparent major congressional investigation in history.”

Comer stated that if the committee investigators discover new information, they “present it” to the public.

“We have done four bank memorandums,” he went on to say. “We have had countless press conferences.”

“We want Hunter Biden to have a public hearing — but he will be deposed first,” he said. “That is how every investigation in history — whether a congressional investigation or a criminal investigation by law enforcement agencies — they always begin with a deposition.”

Comer chastised his Democratic colleagues for using a double standard.

“We will have the public hearing, but the Democrats are trying to create a narrative that depositions are bad,” he told reporters. “All they did in the January 6 probe was take depositions, and when they did convene public hearings, they presented films of the depositions they did.”

The ranking Democrat on the Oversight Committee described Comer’s refusal to hold a public hearing for Hunter Biden as a “epic humiliation” and claimed that the committee’s reluctance to allow the president’s son to testify in public is “a frank confession that they are simply not interested in the facts and have no confidence in their own case or the ability of their own Members to pursue it.”

Raskin said, “Let me get this straight.” “Hunter Biden was sent a subpoena to appear and testify, but Chairman Comer and the Oversight Republicans now reject his offer to appear before the full Committee, the world, and to answer any questions after he wept and complained about him for ten months and hinted at some massive, unverified family conspiracy.

However, former House Oversight Committee chairman Jason Chaffetz stated that it is “normal and customary for a serious investigation to do a transcribed interview or deposition before a public hearing.” Chaffetz oversaw several high-profile investigations, including the congressional probe into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server.

According to Chaffetz, a contributor for Fox News, “the good news is, they get to do both,” Fox News Digital reported. “A deposition is a different format — the content is complex and deep, and we did that routinely, and it is the proper way to do an investigation.”

The Bidens “don’t get to dictate how the House of Representatives does their investigations,” Chaffetz continued.

Chaffetz clarified that professional staff members, not legislators, raise questions during a deposition.

“You can get a better, more thorough investigation done during the deposition, which should be the goal of everybody,” Chaffetz stated.

Fox News Digital’s Josh Chaffetz expressed his belief that Hunter Biden’s staff is aware that holding a public hearing “is much easier than doing a transcribed interview.”

“You can be coached up how to filibuster a five-minute set of questions from a member of Congress, so, I think they don’t want the thoroughness and they don’t want the explicit facts to come out,” Chaffetz went on to say. “That’s just a guess—but Abbe Lowell is an exceptional, talented attorney—a transcribed interview with Hunter Biden will go on for hours, if not for a day or two, so the exposure is lessened by having only public testimony.”

He went on to say, “But if you’re James Comer and want to get to the details of the facts, you want to do both.”

Lowell accused Comer and Republicans earlier this week of using “closed-door sessions to manipulate, even distort the facts and misinform the public.”

“We therefore propose opening the door,” wrote Lowell. “If, as you claim, your efforts are important and involve issues that Americans should know about, then let light shine on the proceedings.”

However, Democrats, according to Chaffetz, are in a “precarious position because they set the standards.”

“And now that they have to live with them, they don’t want to do that,” he added.

Hunter Biden’s deposition, according to Chaffetz, is “not an optional event.”

“You typically would take the main witness last, and that’s Hunter Biden,” Chaffetz went on to say. “Hunter Biden needs to show up and I can’t think of a single excuse that would justify his non-attendance.”