Previously this year, Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL) sounded off on Democratic congressman Jamie Raskin (D-MD) over the seeming double standard that is applied to the Trump family. Waltz’s remarks before Congress pertained to the investigation into Hunter Biden’s defiance of a congressional subpoena amid an investigation from the House Oversight Committee.
In his monologue, Walz called out the “false narratives” that have been spread about the situation surrounding Hunter Biden. “I watched yesterday as committee Democrats continued to fall spend false narratives, several of which went out just yesterday as interviews were ongoing with Hunter Biden’s art dealer, which is rich in and of itself, that Congressman Goldman on the other side of the aisle went to the press during the interviews and spun a narrative while it was going on, but he conveniently admitted that 70% of the art buyers were Biden donors,” he said.
Calling out Hunter Biden’s refusal to comply with the subpoena, Waltz brought up the contrasting behavior from the Trump family, who agreed to honor the requests to appear before Congress. In particular, Waltz noted when Donald Trump Jr., appeared before Congress in multiple instances to answer questions in about his President Trump.
Waltz added, “But let’s talk about precedent for a moment of a president’s son abiding by lawful subpoenas of the Congress Donald Trump Jr, came before this body. He came before the House Intelligence Committee, he came before the House Judiciary Committee. He came before the Senate Intelligence Committee twice. He came before the so called Jan. Six committee, all behind closed doors where lawyers can sit down both sides of the aisle and have a conversation, go through documents, all under oath, which is the precedent for any committee. Don Jr came before committees and came before this body five times, behind closed doors.”
Building on this point, Waltz drew into questioned why Hunter Biden chose not to comply with the congressional subpoena. Waltz also confronted Raksin regarding comments he made on CBS in 2022 that implied Hunter Biden is being held to a different standard than the individuals the January 6 Committee was investigating.
“What is Hunter Biden afraid of? What won’t he do? And ranking member Raskin, you’re going to reap what you sow, my friend. I mean, you insisted on depositions for those who appeared before the Jan Six committee when Steve Bannon agreed to testify publicly, you argued, sir, that he should have to sit for a closed door interview just like every other witness. Quote, the way we have treated every single witness is the same. They come in behind closed doors, they talk to the committee there, you said on an interview in front of CBS in 2022 but now that Republicans are doing the same process, following house rules, doing the investigating, somehow Hunter Biden, because he’s a Biden, should be held to a different standard,” Waltz claimed.
Watch Waltz below:
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“At the end of the day, we had a government official in the president of the United States, a vice president, set up 30 shell companies. Why? What product did those companies sell nothing? Vice President Biden was charged with two countries in his portfolio, China and Ukraine, while the vice president’s son, traveled on official business on Air Force Two, and received massive monetary contributions afterwards, we have laws in place colleagues that prevent foreign powers from influencing government officials were policies changed as a result of the dinners, the calls, the text messages that we know President Biden engaged in through His Son. We have a duty to get to the bottom of it,” he concluded.
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