Dana Milbanks of WaPo is just one of many to find House Committee Chairman and Representative James Comer’s (R-SC) insistence on a closed door deposition by Hunter Biden to be, at best, questionable:
But Comer had changed his mind. Now he would allow the younger Biden only to appear in a secret deposition from which the chairman could cherry-pick. “The president’s son does not get to set the rules,” Comer complained to reporters after Biden’s remarks. Soon thereafter, Comer and Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan announced “contempt of Congress proceedings” against Biden for the offense of insisting that his testimony be in public.
What were they trying to prevent Americans from seeing? That “my father was not financially involved in my business,” as Hunter Biden declared outside the Capitol? That “MAGA Republicans” have taken “the light of my dad’s love for me and presented it as darkness”?
Every time I see one of these complaints, I can only think:
Biden, fils, should have constructed a faux-meeting area in front of the Capitol, complete with desks for himself and an inquisitor, preferably of reputation and independent mind, and, finally, pass the word among friends that the deposition is taking place in front of the Capitol, and that they should attend.
Chairman Comer, from all appearances, runs on emotion and pride of position, so usurping his prestige through a well-attended meeting completing one of his responsibilities, even if it’s through an unofficial circus controlled by Biden, rather than himself, should result in a surfeit of emotion being jammed down his gullet. In turn, I think we might see some highly embarrassing disclosures by the chairman, and possibly even his resignation.
