{"id":2007357,"date":"2023-08-21T18:59:07","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T22:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-blasts-hunter-biden-lawyer-for-threatening-to-use-president-as-first-sons-witness\/"},"modified":"2023-08-21T19:00:20","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T23:00:20","slug":"gop-blasts-hunter-biden-lawyer-for-threatening-to-use-president-as-first-sons-witness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-blasts-hunter-biden-lawyer-for-threatening-to-use-president-as-first-sons-witness\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP criticizes Hunter Biden lawyer for allegedly threatening to use the president as a witness."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgop-blasts-hunter-biden-lawyer-for-threatening-to-use-president-as-first-sons-witness%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2007357&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Republicans React to Hunter\u2062 Biden&#8217;s Attorney&#8217;s Warning to Call President Joe Biden as Witness<\/h2>\n<p>Republicans are responding strongly to the recent revelation that Hunter Biden&#8217;s \u2063attorney, Chris\u2062 Clark, had warned Justice Department prosecutors that he\u200d would call President Joe Biden to the witness stand \u200cif they \u2062charged his client. The news came to light through\u200c a trove of leaked emails to Politico\u200b over the weekend, sparking outrage among House chairmen leading the congressional investigation \u200dinto Joe and Hunter Biden.<\/p>\n<h3>Denouncement of the Threat<\/h3>\n<p>Oversight Committee\u2064 Chairman \u200dJames Comer (R-KY) expressed his disapproval, stating, &#8220;Hunter Biden&#8217;s attorneys&#8217; threats to call \u2062Joe Biden \u200bto testify in his son&#8217;s \u200dlegal defense is\u200c just another example of how the Bidens \u2063have used \u2063&#8217;the brand&#8217; to receive privileges no other American would ever \u200bbe \u2064given.&#8221; \u200bJudiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan\u2062 (R-OH) also weighed in, describing \u2064Clark&#8217;s warning as &#8220;sounding like\u200b more of a threat.&#8221;\u2064 Jordan further \u2062emphasized that if Joe Biden were called as a witness, he would be subject to cross-examination in \u200bcourt, raising questions about how the \u200bPresident would handle such a situation. However, the most significant \u2063takeaway for Jordan \u200cwas the possibility that \u200cHunter Biden could have \u200d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-blasts-hunter-biden-lawyer-for-threatening-to-use-president-as-first-sons-witness\/\" title=\"GOP criticizes Hunter Biden lawyer for allegedly threatening to use the president as a witness.\">evaded charges altogether<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Clark&#8217;s Argument and IRS Whistleblower Testimony<\/h3>\n<p>According to Politico, Clark&#8217;s warning to Weiss was\u200b part of a larger argument against charging \u2063Hunter \u200cBiden. Clark claimed that the prosecution would be seen as succumbing to political pressure from Republicans and that it would be inappropriate for a sitting President to testify at a \u2062criminal\u200c trial,\u2062 potentially leading \u2063to a &#8220;Constitutional crisis.&#8221; This \u200brevelation \u200baligns \u200bwith the\u200b testimony of two IRS investigators \u200bwho attended a meeting in October 2022, \u200cwhich they considered evidence of Hunter Biden receiving special treatment in the case. One of \u2063the \u200cIRS whistleblowers&#8217; \u2063lawyers stated that Clark&#8217;s threat \u2064to have\u2063 Joe Biden testify \u2063aligns with \u200btheir clients&#8217; testimony that Clark \u200chad previously\u2062 threatened the prosecutors with &#8220;career suicide.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Republican Response<\/h3>\n<p>A\u200c spokesperson for Senator Chuck \u200cGrassley (R-IA), a \u200dco-chair of the Whistleblower Protection \u200cCaucus and a key figure in the Biden family investigation, emphasized the importance of fair application\u2064 of the law, stating, &#8220;What\u200c is political is threatening to use the influence of the sitting president\u2062 of the United States to protect Hunter Biden\u2062 from facing justice.&#8221; The spokesperson further criticized the Biden DOJ, claiming that political influence has\u200d found a home within it.<\/p>\n<h3>The Ongoing Prosecution<\/h3>\n<p>The prosecution against Hunter Biden, resulting from a lengthy investigation, is still ongoing. A plea deal that was set to be entered into with special counsel\u2064 David Weiss fell apart in July, leading to an impasse. The deal involved Hunter Biden pleading guilty to two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-lawyer-calls-irs-whistleblower-a-criminal\/\" title=\"Hunter Biden Lawyer Calls IRS Whistleblower a Criminal\">misdemeanor tax charges<\/a> and \u200csigning a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/justice-department-charges-hunter-biden\/\" title=\"Justice Department charges Hunter Biden\">pretrial diversion agreement<\/a> to avoid a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/victims-blame-soros-backed-prosecutors-for-crime-wave-in-u-s-cities\/\" title=\"Victims Blame Soros-Backed Prosecutors for Crime Wave in U.S. Cities\">felony gun charge<\/a>. With Clark stepping \u200cdown as Hunter Biden&#8217;s attorney due to his potential role as a witness in the plea dispute, the case may proceed to trial.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">Click \u200dhere<\/a> to read more from The Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans responded on Monday to news that Hunter Biden&#8217;s lawyer, Chris Clark, had cautioned Justice Department prosecutors that he would summon President Joe Biden as a witness if they pursued charges against his client. House chairmen overseeing the congressional probe into Joe and Hunter Biden were among those condemning this disclosure, which emerged recently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2007358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2007357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2007357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2007358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2007357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2007357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2007357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}