Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., claimed during a House Oversight Committee hearing on Wednesday that the story of Hunter Biden introducing his father, Joe Biden, to a Burisma advisor when he was vice-president was "100% false."

The committee held a hearing about Big Tech’s censorship on the bombshell New York Post story about emails found on Hunter's laptop. .

Goldman, who gained fame as a lawyer during the first impeachment trial for former President Trump, took issue with the story that was released shortly before the 2020 election.

"’Hunter Biden introduced his father to a top executive at a Ukrainian energy firm less than a year before the elder Biden pressured government officials in Ukraine into firing a prosecutor who was investigating the company,’" Goldman read, before commenting, "That is false. 100% false."

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Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., asked, "Is the gentleman sure about that?"

"Yes, in fact, I am sure about that," Goldman responded. "And as the lead counsel in the first impeachment investigation, we proved that he was actually fired because he was not prosecuting corruption, not that he was fired because he was prosecuting corruption."

Comer interjected, "Corruption of the president’s son’s company?"

"The fact that Joe Biden fired—consistent with U.S. policy in every single European country—the prosecutor general in Ukraine, because he did not prosecute corruption—including at companies like Burisma—has been proven over and...

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