Abbe Lowell's high-priced whining
The things that Chairman Comer have going for him are the piles and piles of documentation and testimony he's compiled thus far. Comer is a former bank executive so he's an expert at deciphering what suspicious activity reports (SARs) and bank records.
In the legal profession, there's a saying that, if you have the facts on your side, you pound the facts, if you have the law on your side, you pound the law and if you don't have either, you pound the desk. This letter from Lowell to Chairman Comer is Lowell pounding the desk. Check this diatribe out:
Your Committee has been working for almost a year—without success—to tie our client’s business activities to his father. You state that one of your purposes is to review how a President’s family’s business activities raise ethics and disclosure concerns to inform the basis for a legislative solution. But all your focus has been on this President’s family while turning a blind eye toward former President Trump and his family’s businesses, some of which the family maintained while serving in office—an area ripe to inform your purported legislative pursuits. Unlike members of the Trump family, Hunter is a private person who has never worked in any family business nor ever served in the White House or in any public office. Notwithstanding this stark difference, you have manipulated Hunter’s legitimate business dealings and his times of terrible addiction into a politically motivated basis for hearings to accuse his father of some wrongdoing.Talk about telling a whopper. Saying that Hunter "has never worked in any family business" is BS. If he's never worked in any family business, please explain how so many Biden family members, including some of Hunter's neices and nephews received payments through the labyrinth of LLCs that laundered money sent from China, Russia and Ukraine, then was run through the LLCs before getting disbursed to 9 different Biden family members. Better yet, Mr. Lowell, explain what jobs these 9 different Biden family members did to earn this money.
Then there's this:
However, with the likelihood that you will not listen to the many trying to end your partisan crusade, we respond specifically to your subpoena to Hunter Biden. We have seen you use closeddoor sessions to manipulate, even distort the facts and misinform the public. We therefore propose opening the door. If, as you claim, your efforts are important and involve issues that Americans should know about, then let the light shine on these proceedings. Indeed, even you stated that "Hunter Biden is more than welcome to come in front of the committee. If he wants to clear his good name—if he wants to come and say, you know, these weren't shell companies, they actually did something—he's invited today. We will drop everything."What shameful dishonesty. Chairman Comer's committee and their investigators haven't found records of transactions. What legitimate company receives, then disburses money but doesn't record the nature of the transaction? Further, Mr. Lowell, how did the former First Lady of Moscow wire money into an account belonging to a company that was established the day before?
Lowell agreed to have his client testify during a public hearing but not in a deposition. Thanks but no thanks. Lowell knows that an open hearing works in his client's favor because each congressman is limited to 5 minutes of questioning. A well-prepped witness will know how to filibuster and all-but-totally avoid answering difficult questions. Each congressman might get to ask 1 follow-up question. It's impossible to cross-examine a well-prepped witness in 5 minutes. During a deposition, each side gets an hour to question the witness. That allows Republicans to ask 4-5 follow-up questions after the original question. That's how prosecutors get to the truth:
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