Democracy Dies in Darkness

Hunter Biden gives House Republicans the rebuttal they didn’t want

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National columnist
February 29, 2024 at 7:32 p.m. EST
Hunter Biden, son of President Biden, spent hours Wednesday answering questions from investigators and members of the House Oversight and Judiciary committees. (Craig Hudson for The Washington Post)
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Hunter Biden’s appearance in front of investigators and members of the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees unfolded a bit like a Bruce Lee movie.

Republican legislators and interviewers challenging the president’s son on the House majority’s behalf would throw out an allegation, often one that’s been worn smooth after tumbling around in the right-wing media universe for the past year or two. And Biden would invariably swat it away, stripping off the layers of innuendo that had been applied by Donald Trump and Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) or Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) or any of myriad Fox News commentators.