{"id":2202589,"date":"2024-03-20T12:27:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T16:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-hearing-goes-off-the-rails-in-opening-moments-as-gop-witness-takes-shots-at-democrats\/"},"modified":"2024-03-20T12:33:26","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T16:33:26","slug":"hunter-biden-hearing-goes-off-the-rails-in-opening-moments-as-gop-witness-takes-shots-at-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-hearing-goes-off-the-rails-in-opening-moments-as-gop-witness-takes-shots-at-democrats\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunter Biden hearing derails quickly as GOP witness fires at Democrats in opening exchanges"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/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%2Fhunter-biden-hearing-goes-off-the-rails-in-opening-moments-as-gop-witness-takes-shots-at-democrats%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=2202589&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>A Tumultuous Start: The Second House Oversight Committee Hearing<\/h2>\n<p>The latest \u200dchapter in \u200ba dramatic \u200dpolitical saga unfolded as <strong>Tony Bobulinski<\/strong>, a former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-defector-emails-pipeline-to-obama-admin-seen-as-currency\/\" title=\"Hunter Biden Defector Emails: 'Pipeline' to Obama Admin Seen as 'Currency'\">business associate<\/a> of Hunter Biden, upended the second House\u200c Oversight Committee hearing. His pointed accusations against \u2063prominent Democrats set \u2062the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/identity-of-trump-georgia-trial-witness-testimony-videos-leaker-exposed-in-court\/\" title=\"Identity of Trump Georgia Trial Witness Testimony Videos Leaker Exposed in Court\">room abuzz<\/a> from the outset.<\/p>\n<h3>Bobulinski&#8217;s Bombshell \u2064Opening Statement<\/h3>\n<p>In a fiery opening salvo, Bobulinski didn&#8217;t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uk-may-ease-ccp-virus-lockdown-from-march-foreign-secretary-says\/\" title=\"UK May Ease CCP Virus Lockdown From March, Foreign Secretary Says\">hold back<\/a>. He boldly confronted Hunter Biden&#8217;s lawyer, <strong>Abbe Lowell<\/strong>, and \u200bspecifically named <strong>Reps. Jamie Raskin (D-MD)<\/strong> and <strong>Dan Goldman (D-NY)<\/strong>, alleging deceit in their narrative concerning the Biden family\u2019s business ventures.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>  \u2063  &#8220;We keep hearing that our democracy is at risk, that it\u2019s on the ballot in &#8217;24.\u200b Yet,\u200c those sounding this alarm are the very\u2062 ones who, without a drop of shame, \u2063mislead the American populace,&#8221; Bobulinski asserted.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>His criticisms went further, accusing the congressmen of dishonesty:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>  \u2064&#8221;Rep. Dan\u2063 Goldman and Jamie \u200cRaskin, esteemed lawyers \u2064and\u200d in Mr. Goldman&#8217;s case, ex-prosecutor, seem poised to distort the truth \u2063in this \u2063chamber and\u2062 then echo those distortions in the press.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Raskin&#8217;s Call for Decorum<\/h3>\n<p>The \u2064allegations \u2063stirred a procedural challenge from Raskin, \u200dwho questioned the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-investigation-finds-obama-admin-was-knowingly-funding-an-al-qaeda-affiliate\/\" title=\"Senate Investigation Finds Obama Admin Was Knowingly Funding an Al-Qaeda Affiliate\">committee chairman<\/a>, <strong>Rep. James Comer (R-KY)<\/strong>, about the protocol for\u2064 witness conduct. &#8220;Are witnesses not bound by the same expectations of decorum outlined in House rule 11?&#8221; Raskin probed.<\/p>\n<p>After a \u200dbrief consultation, Comer conceded ignorance of any specific decorum rules \u2063applicable\u200d to witnesses, allowing the disruptor Bobulinski to press on.<\/p>\n<h3>Remote Witness and\u2064 Parliamentary Squabbles<\/h3>\n<p>The hearing took another turn \u2064when Raskin questioned the allowance for <strong>Jason Galanis<\/strong>, another previous Hunter Biden associate, to testify via video link \u2013 a privilege not extended to \u200bmembers themselves. Amidst the procedural chaos, Goldman\u2019s efforts to raise an inquiry were swiftly curtailed as Comer proceeded to the subsequent witness.<\/p>\n<p>Despite\u2063 the invitation, <strong>Hunter Biden declined\u2063 to\u200d attend the hearing<\/strong>. His chair remained conspicuously empty, a detail that didn&#8217;t escape \u2063Bobulinski&#8217;s wry sense of humor as he quipped about\u2063 yielding \u2063the floor to Hunter\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pennsylvania-state-senate-plans-meeting-to-air-complaints-of-voter-fraud\/\" title=\"Pennsylvania State Senate Plans Meeting to Air Complaints of Voter Fraud\">opening statement<\/a>\u2062 before beginning his\u2064 own.<\/p>\n<h3>The Witness Lineup<\/h3>\n<p>Contention continued as \u2062additional witnesses like <strong>Lev Parnas<\/strong>,\u200d an associate of\u200c Rudy Giuliani, and Galanis prepared to testify. Noticeably absent was <strong>Devon Archer<\/strong>, another \u2064individual summoned by Republican members of \u2064the\u200d committee, who chose not \u2064to partake in the\u2063 hearing&#8217;s unraveling spectacle.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM\u200d THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As accusations flew and tensions simmered, the committee struggled to maintain \u2064order amidst what promised to be a series \u2064of high-stakes \u200dtestimonies, underscoring a\u2062 divisive political atmosphere and setting the scene for what may\u2064 be a lengthy and contentious inquiry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Impeachment inquiry hearing into President Joe Biden spirals out of control as ex-associate Tony Bobulinski criticizes Democrats and Hunter Biden&#8217;s lawyer, Abbe Lowell, in his opening remarks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2638,"featured_media":2202590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/MixCollage-20-Mar-2024-11-14-AM-6345-1024x591.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2202589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/MixCollage-20-Mar-2024-11-14-AM-6345-1024x591.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202589","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\/2638"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2202589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2202590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2202589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2202589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2202589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}