WASHINGTON ― House Oversight Committee chair James Comer (R-Ky.) misrepresented testimony by Kevin Morris, a friend of Hunter Biden’s who sat for a deposition on Thursday, according to Morris’s attorney.
Morris, a wealthy entertainment lawyer, spoke to lawmakers for several hours as part of the Republican impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden. Morris has loaned the president’s son millions of dollars.
“Kevin Morris’s massive financial support to Hunter Biden raises ethical and campaign finance concerns for President Joe Biden,” Comer said in a statement accompanying a summary of the interview.
Comer described Morris’s support for the president’s son as a scheme “to insulate then-presidential candidate Joe Biden from political liability.”
In a letter to the Oversight Committee obtained by HuffPost, Bryan Sullivan, an attorney for Morris, took issue with Comer’s characterization and demanded he release a full transcript of the interview.
“Not two hours after we left Mr. Morris’ transcribed interview, you issued a press statement with cherry‐picked, out of context and totally misleading descriptions of what Mr. Morris said,” Sullivan wrote.
Hunter Biden himself defied a Republican subpoena for a closed-door deposition last month, insisting that a public hearing would prevent misleading spin ― essentially the same scenario Sullivan is complaining about. But Biden changed his mind last week and will sit for a high-stakes deposition at the end of next month.
A spokesperson for the Oversight Committee said the transcript would affirm Comer’s description of the testimony and that the committee “intends to release the transcript soon but we do not have it from the court reporter at this time.”
Sullivan said Morris only cared about protecting his friend, whom he met in 2019 as the younger Biden recovered from a long-running drug addiction and launched a second career as an artist.
Comer said Morris reported having loaned the…
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