The House Ways and Means Committee released on Wednesday more than 700 pages of evidence that the committee said supported the Republican-led impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.
The material, provided to the committee by two Internal Revenue Service whistleblowers, included a message through the program WhatsApp that Chairman Jason Smith (R-MO) said the president's son Hunter Biden wrote to a business associate on June 6, 2017.
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The message showed Hunter Biden expressing to the associate that he did not want to "sign over [his] family's brand."
"Bull***t James - all around bull***t. Explain to me one thing Tony brings to MY table that I so desperately need that I'm willing to sign over my family's brand and pretty much the rest of my business life?" Hunter Biden wrote. "Read the f*****g documents people. It's plane f*****g English. Why in gods name would I give this marginal bully the keys my family's only asset?"
Smith observed, "That asset could only be one person, Joe Biden."
The material also included an email written by Assistant U.S. Attorney Lesley Wolf, a top prosecutor in the Department of Justice's yearslong investigation into Hunter Biden. In it, Wolf wrote to federal investigators to remove mentions of "Political Figure 1" from search warrant information.
Smith said "Political Figure 1" was Joe Biden, adding, "Here we see clear as day that the Department of Justice actively...
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