The Republican chairman of the House Oversight panel on Thursday formally invited President Joe Biden to testify before his committee as a part of its impeachment probe.
Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., who leads the committee, proposed in a letter Thursday that Biden appear on April 16, and cited testimony at a public hearing last week from former business associates of Hunter Biden, Tony Bobulinski and Jason Galanis, as well as former Ukrainian businessman Lev Parnas.
The proposed testimony would come at a pivotal moment for Biden’s main 2024 challenger, former President Donald Trump. The trial for Trump’s New York criminal case is set to begin a day earlier, on April 15.
In response, the White House pointed to this post on X from spokesman Ian Sams from last week when Comer made the public announcement that he planned to invite Biden to testify:
“Comer knows 20+ witnesses have testified that POTUS did nothing wrong,” Sams said. “He knows that the hundreds of thousands of pages of records he’s received have refuted his false allegations. This is a sad stunt at the end of a dead impeachment. Call it a day, pal.”
This is a developing story.
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