He just can’t do anything right
The House Oversight Committee on Tuesday released the transcript of the testimony of Kevin Morris, a friend of and attorney for Hunter Biden, and his statements undercut everything Republicans have said about the embattled first son.
Morris is a high-powered entertainment lawyer in Los Angeles who met Hunter at a 2019 presidential fundraiser for his father, Joe Biden. Morris has loaned Hunter nearly $5 million in the years since. He testified about his relationship with Hunter in a closed-door committee hearing last week.
Initially, Oversight Chair James Comer just released a list of paraphrased highlights from Morris’s testimony. Comer claimed that Morris informally loaned Hunter the money and does not expect to be repaid until after the 2024 election—or possibly ever. But the transcript shows this couldn’t be further from the truth.
In reality, Morris never once mentioned the possibility of forgiving the loans. Instead, he said he has a “100 percent” expectation that Hunter will repay him, and repeatedly states that he and Hunter have a series of promissory notes agreeing the younger Biden will pay back the money.
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The only person who mentions loan forgiveness in the entire interview is Representative Andy Biggs. The Arizona Republican has been a vocal critic of the Biden family, accusing them of criminal wrongdoing. Biggs asked what consequences Hunter would face if he defaulted on these loans.
Morris joked that, hypothetically, a lender could ask the borrower to “come over and wash your car for the rest of their life.”
Biggs replied, “Or you can forgive. You can forgive it.”
Morris agreed that was an option, but he never said he would.
Morris also repeatedly stated that Hunter never asked him for the money. Morris would voluntarily send money through his lawyers to Hunter’s, but the younger Biden did not ask him to do so. Morris only gave Hunter cash directly once, when he bought two paintings on their second meeting in 2019. And again, he wants the rest of the money he loaned paid back with interest.
Look, we all know it’s skeevy that the children of powerful people get special opportunities to make money by trading on their famous family’s name. This has been going on since time began. I’m against it. But all this “investigation” of poor Hunter Biden, a man who has had some mammoth personal struggles, has turned up absolutely no evidence of any kind of corruption. I still maintain that this is mostly in order to make Joe Biden cry but it’s not working. And Hunter seems to be a lot smarter and tougher than they gave him credit for.
What a clown show this is.