Powerful ranking member of the House Oversight Committee Rep. Jamie Raskin issued a statement following the U.S. Attorney for Delaware criminally charging Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, with “two misdemeanor tax counts and a firearms count” after a five year investigation.
“This development,” Raskin writes, “reflects the Justice Department’s continued institutional independence in following the evidence of actual crimes and enforcing the rule of law even in the face of constant criticism and heckling by my GOP colleagues who think that the system of justice should only follow their partisan wishes.”
Raskin emphasized that the U.S. Attorney in the case was appointed by then-President Donald Trump and kept in place by President Biden.
NEW: Ranking Member @RepRaskin issued the following statement on the plea agreement between the U.S. Attorney for Delaware and Hunter Biden: https://t.co/A1OBZLwvZH
— Oversight Committee Democrats (@OversightDems) June 20, 2023
Raskin’s role on the Oversight Committee, where Chair James Comer has been running his own investigations into what he calls the “Biden crime family,” lends Raskin’s statement political potency.
“Oversight Committee Republicans,” he writes, “have advanced debunked conspiracy theories about President Biden and are now, again, wailing about the work of a Trump appointed U.S. Attorney.”
(Raskin has accused a number of his congressional colleagues of abusing their power and pursuing specious claims in order to return Trump to the Oval Office.)
The name of Jim Jordan's new "Weaponization of the Federal Government" subcommittee is a psychological projection and political confession.
— Rep. Jamie Raskin (@RepRaskin) February 9, 2023
Their obvious—and demonstrable—purpose is to abuse the power of Congress to send Donald Trump back to the White House in 2024. pic.twitter.com/vC8x1UbPQS
Trump and other MAGA adherents like House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Rep. Lauren Boebert are portraying the Hunter Biden charges — for which he will receive probation — as proof of a “two-tiered” legal system that protects those in power.
The accusation is made despite an exhaustive investigation by a Trump-appointed prosecutor that failed to find bribery or other crimes, insinuated by the Oversight Committee, with which to charge Hunter Biden.
Like MAGA, Raskin also indicates he sees a “two-tiered” justice system at work in which a close relation of a President has been shielded from scrutiny and accountability by friends in Congress.
But Raskin points his finger not at Hunter Biden, but at Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, hinting that a Kushner investigation, delving into “outrageous” policy favors and concessions, might produce more than “debunked conspiracy theories.”
“Meanwhile,” Raskin writes, “our colleagues have refused to investigate Jared Kushner and Donald Trump’s receipt of billions of dollars from autocratic regimes after handing them a string of outrageous policy favors and concessions.”
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