{"id":512682,"date":"2022-11-19T23:16:38","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T20:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/house-gop-pushes-hunter-biden-probe-despite-thin-majority-video\/"},"modified":"2022-11-19T23:16:38","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T20:16:38","slug":"house-gop-pushes-hunter-biden-probe-despite-thin-majority-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/house-gop-pushes-hunter-biden-probe-despite-thin-majority-video\/","title":{"rendered":"#House GOP pushes Hunter Biden probe despite thin majority [Video]"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2719383fcad\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2719383fcad\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/house-gop-pushes-hunter-biden-probe-despite-thin-majority-video\/#House_GOP_pushes_Hunter_Biden_probe_despite_thin_majority_Video\" >House GOP pushes Hunter Biden probe despite thin majority [Video]<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"House_GOP_pushes_Hunter_Biden_probe_despite_thin_majority_Video\"><\/span>House GOP pushes Hunter Biden probe despite thin majority [Video]<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Even with their threadbare House majority, Republicans <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-2022-midterm-elections-biden-europe-elise-stefanik-0e782fc6486c2c625194622ae244e4ae\" data-ylk=\"slk:doubled down this week\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">doubled down this week<\/a> on using their new power next year to investigate the Biden administration and, in particular, the president\u2019s son.<\/p>\n<p>But the midterm results have emboldened a White House that has long prepared for this moment. Republicans secured <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/2022-midterm-elections-house-control-79475a4fc11e4375cd0dded651b9eede\" data-ylk=\"slk:much smaller margins than anticipated\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">much smaller margins than anticipated<\/a>, and aides to President Joe Biden and other Democrats believe voters punished the GOP for its reliance on conspiracy theories and Donald Trump-fueled lies over the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p>They see it as validation for the administration&#8217;s playbook for the midterms and going forward to focus on legislative achievements and continue them, in contrast to Trump-aligned candidates whose complaints about the president&#8217;s son played to their most loyal supporters and were too far in the weeds for the average American. The Democrats retained control of the Senate, and the GOP&#8217;s margin in the House is expected to be the slimmest majority in two decades.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you look back, we picked up seats in New York, New Jersey, California,\u201d said Mike DuHaime, a Republican strategist and public affairs executive. \u201cThese were not voters coming to the polls because they wanted Hunter Biden investigated \u2014 far from it. <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/2022-midterm-elections-abortion-biden-inflation-cf4dffe87a7c2fd1bdd58df0346e15dc\" data-ylk=\"slk:They were coming to the polls because they were upset about inflation.\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">They were coming to the polls because they were upset about inflation.<\/a> They\u2019re upset about gas prices. They\u2019re upset about what\u2019s going on with the war in Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/biden-border-security-congress-government-and-politics-b713d918624fca74f400e5c641408188\" data-ylk=\"slk:But House Republicans used their first news conference\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">But House Republicans used their first news conference<\/a> after clinching the majority to discuss presidential son Hunter Biden and the Justice Department, renewing long-held grievances about what they claim is a politicized law enforcement agency and a bombshell corruption case overlooked by Democrats and the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom their first press conference, these congressional Republicans made clear that they\u2019re going to do one thing in this new Congress, which is investigations, and they\u2019re doing this for political payback for Biden\u2019s efforts on an agenda that helps working people,\u201d said Kyle Herrig, the founder of the Congressional Integrity Project, a newly relaunched, multimillion-dollar effort by Democratic strategists to counter the onslaught of House GOP probes.<\/p>\n<p>Inside the White House, the counsel&#8217;s office added staff months ago and beefed up its communication efforts, and staff members have been deep into researching and preparing for the onslaught. They&#8217;ve worked to try to identify their own vulnerabilities and plan effective responses. But anything the House seeks related to Hunter Biden, who is not a White House staffer, will come from his attorneys, who have declined to respond to the allegations.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. James Comer, incoming chairman of the House Oversight Committee, said there are \u201ctroubling questions\u201d of the utmost importance about Hunter Biden\u2019s business dealings and one of the president\u2019s brothers, James Biden, that require deeper investigation. He said they were examining the president, too.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRooting out waste, fraud and abuse in the federal government is the primary mission of the Oversight Committee,\u201d said Comer, R-Ky. \u201cAs such, this investigation is a top priority.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Republican legislators promised a trove of new information this past week, but what they have presented so far has been a condensed review of a few years\u2019 worth of complaints about Hunter Biden\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Hunter Biden <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/joe-biden-europe-business-c49555d51eb243e09a42f7577fc5937f\" data-ylk=\"slk:joined the board of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma in 2014\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">joined the board of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma in 2014<\/a>, around the time his father, then vice president, was helping conduct the Obama administration\u2019s foreign policy with Ukraine. Senate Republicans have said the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/election-2020-virus-outbreak-ukraine-elections-joe-biden-989ed1ace4ff7e4e9ab51497b36fd523\" data-ylk=\"slk:appointment may have posed a conflict of interest\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">appointment may have posed a conflict of interest<\/a>, but they did not present evidence that the hiring influenced U.S. policies, and they did not implicate Joe Biden in any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p>Republican lawmakers and their staff for the past year have been analyzing messages and financial transactions found on a laptop that belonged to Hunter Biden. They long have discussed issuing congressional subpoenas to foreign entities that did business with him, and they recently brought on James Mandolfo, a former federal prosecutor, to assist with the investigation as <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a> counsel for the Oversight Committee.<\/p>\n<p>The difference now is that Republicans will have subpoena power to follow through.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Republicans are going to go ahead,&#8221; said Tom Davis, a Republican lawyer who specializes in congressional investigations and legislative strategy. \u201cI think their members are enthusiastic about going after this stuff &#8230; there are a lot of unanswered questions. Look, the 40-year trend is parties under-investigate their own and over-investigate the other party. It didn&#8217;t start here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre dismissed the GOP focus on investigations as \u201con-brand\u201d thinking.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey said they were going to fight inflation, they said they were going to make that a priority, then they get the majority and their top priority is actually not focusing on the American family, but focusing on the president&#8217;s family,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Even some newly elected Republicans are pushing back against the idea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe top priority is to deal with inflation and the cost of living. &#8230; What I don\u2019t want to see is what we saw in the Trump administration, where Democrats went after the president and the administration incessantly,\u201d Rep.-elect Mike Lawler of New York said on CNN.<\/p>\n<p>Hunter Biden\u2019s taxes and foreign business work are already under federal investigation, with a grand jury in Delaware hearing testimony in recent months.<\/p>\n<p>While he never held a position on the presidential campaign or in the White House, his membership on the board of the Ukrainian energy company and his efforts to strike deals in China have long raised questions about whether he traded on his father\u2019s public service, including reported references in his emails to the \u201cbig guy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Joe Biden has said he\u2019s never spoken to his son about his foreign business, and there are no indications that the federal investigation involves the president.<\/p>\n<p>Trump and his supporters, meanwhile, have advanced a widely discredited theory that Biden pushed for the firing of <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-questions-joe-biden-hunter-biden-88e27ca2b5e6d7c821d9a6a0ba0e04f8\" data-ylk=\"slk:Ukraine\u2019s top prosecutor to protect his son and Burisma from investigation.\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">Ukraine\u2019s top prosecutor to protect his son and Burisma from investigation.<\/a> Biden did indeed press for the prosecutor\u2019s firing, but that was a reflection of the official position of not only the Obama administration but many Western countries and because the prosecutor was perceived as soft on corruption.<\/p>\n<p>House Republicans also have signaled upcoming investigations into immigration, government spending and parents&#8217; rights. White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Chris Wray have been put on notice as potential witnesses.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, incoming Judiciary Committee chairman, has long complained of what he says is a politicized Justice Department and the ongoing probes into Trump.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/politics-donald-trump-merrick-garland-government-and-550c01de053c08db4d53ca57f315feb6\" data-ylk=\"slk:Garland appointed a special counsel\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">Garland appointed a special counsel<\/a> to oversee the Justice Department\u2019s investigation into the presence of classified documents at Trump\u2019s Florida estate as well as key aspects of a separate probe involving the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection and efforts to undo the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, in a speech Friday night at his Mar-a-Lago estate, slammed the development as \u201cthe latest in a long <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> of witch hunts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of Joe and Hunter Biden, he asked, \u201cWhere\u2019s their special prosecutor?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Matt Mackowiak, a Republican political strategist, said it&#8217;s one thing if the investigations into Hunter Biden stick to corruption questions, but if it veers into the kind of mean-spirited messaging that has been floating around in far-right circles, \u201cI don\u2019t know that the public will have much patience for that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>Associated Press Writer Eric Tucker contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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