{"id":2221916,"date":"2024-04-15T23:09:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T03:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-rejects-house-gop-effort-for-biden-to-testify-in-oversight-impeachment-inquiry\/"},"modified":"2024-04-15T23:11:13","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T03:11:13","slug":"white-house-rejects-house-gop-effort-for-biden-to-testify-in-oversight-impeachment-inquiry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-rejects-house-gop-effort-for-biden-to-testify-in-oversight-impeachment-inquiry\/","title":{"rendered":"The White House declines the House GOP&#8217;s request for President Biden to testify in the Oversight impeachment inquiry"},"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\">36<\/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%2Fwhite-house-rejects-house-gop-effort-for-biden-to-testify-in-oversight-impeachment-inquiry%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=2221916&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--><p>The \u200dWhite House declined an invitation from the House Oversight Committee for President Joe \u2063Biden to testify in the House GOP\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-gop-threaten-impeachment-of-attorney-general-garland\/\" title=\"House GOP threatens to impeach Attorney General Garland.\">impeachment\u200c inquiry<\/a>. In a letter on Monday, Richard \u2064Sauber, the president&#8217;s special counsel, rejected the invitation\u200b and criticized the\u200d stalled GOP inquiry \u200cas \u200ca \u200bfailure. The committee&#8217;s\u2064 impeachment inquiry has only uncovered evidence showing the President&#8217;s\u200d innocence. The White\u2064 House refused \u200bthe House\u200b Oversight Committee&#8217;s \u2063request for President Joe Biden to testify in the House GOP&#8217;s impeachment inquiry. \u200bRichard\u200b Sauber, \u200bthe president&#8217;s special counsel, dismissed the invitation\u2064 in a\u200d letter on Monday, \u2062condemning\u200b the stalled GOP inquiry as unsuccessful. Moreover, the committee&#8217;s investigation has only pointed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/conservatives-guaranteed-to-face-discrimination-on-campus-from-academics-who-want-them-censored-study-finds\/\" title=\"Conservatives \u2018Guaranteed\u2019 To Face Discrimination On Campus From Academics Who Want Them Censored, Study Finds\">evidence supporting<\/a> the President&#8217;s innocence.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/white-house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"White House\">White House<\/a> rejected an invitation by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/house-oversight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"White House\">House Oversight Committee<\/a> for President Joe Biden to testify as part of the House GOP\u2019s impeachment inquiry.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter sent on Monday, Richard Sauber, special counsel to the president, declined the committee\u2019s invitation and decried the GOP\u2019s impeachment inquiry, which has stalled in recent months, as being a failure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour Committee\u2019s purported \u2018impeachment inquiry\u2019 has succeeded only in turning up abundant evidence that, in fact, the President has done nothing wrong,\u201d Sauber <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jameslynch32\/status\/1780046805624873242\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"said\">said<\/a> in a letter to the committee on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour insistence on peddling these false and unsupported allegations despite ample evidence to the contrary makes one thing about your investigation abundantly clear: The facts do not matter to you,\u201d Sauber added.<\/p>\n<p>He also called for the Republican-led House of Representatives to focus on other matters \u201crather than continuing to waste time and taxpayer resources on this partisan charade.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) slammed Biden\u2019s decision not to testify, pointing to the president\u2019s son, Hunter Biden, and claiming the president has been dishonest about his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-bows-to-china-shows-weakness\/\" title=\"Biden bows to China, shows weakness\">past business dealings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe apple doesn\u2019t fall far from the tree in the Biden family. Like his son, Hunter Biden, President Biden is refusing to testify in public about the Bidens\u2019 corrupt influence peddling,\u201d Comer said in a statement on Monday. \u201cThis comes as no surprise since President Biden continues to lie about his relationships with his son\u2019s business partners, even denying they exist when his son said under oath during a deposition that they did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is unfortunate President Biden is unwilling to answer questions before the American people and refuses to answer the very simple, straightforward questions we included in the invitation. Why is it so difficult for the White House to answer those questions? The American people deserve transparency from President Biden, not more lies,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Hunter Biden participated in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/contempt-charge-against-dan-scavino-based-on-false-claims-by-january-6-committee\/\" title=\"Contempt Charge Against Dan Scavino Based on False Claims by January 6 Committee\">closed-door deposition<\/a> but declined to testify in a public hearing after previously calling for the ability to testify publicly rather than behind closed doors.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House declined the House Oversight Committee&#8217;s invitation for President Joe Biden to testify in the House GOP\u2019s impeachment inquiry. Special counsel Richard Sauber, in a letter on Monday, rebuffed the GOP\u2019s stalled inquiry, stating the president won&#8217;t testify<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2638,"featured_media":2221917,"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-2024-06-16-PM-8725-1024x591.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2221916","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-2024-06-16-PM-8725-1024x591.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221916","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=2221916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2221917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2221916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2221916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2221916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}