According to a Tuesday letter addressed to committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.), Biden agreed to testify before the committee on Dec. 13 — as long as the hearing was public. In the letter, Biden’s attorneys quoted Comer’s own demand, issued in November, that given Biden’s “willingness to address this investigation publicly up to this point, we would expect him to be willing to testify before Congress.”
The letter added that open-door proceedings “would prevent selective leaks, manipulated transcripts, doctored exhibits, or one-sided press statements.”
Republicans would not have it. “Hunter Biden is trying to play by his own rules instead of following the rules required of everyone else,” Comer wrote in a statement. “That won’t stand with House Republicans.”
I know this is all a joke to them and Hunter Biden is no more than a convenient political football for them to bat around regardless of the private human being underneath that who has never run for or held public office, but as an aside for those of us who know recovering addicts, the fact that MTG blew his nudes up and displayed them in open Congressional hearing to the squeals and opinions of the entire world press, and Hunter Biden is STILL maintaining his recovery and sobriety regardless – that is HUGELY impressive.
Sobriety isn’t easy even when all your shit is private. Can you imagine your own improprieties blown up and displayed in the world media like his?
If somebody blew my nudes up and they ended up in the national media, I think I’d implement a brand NEW drug regimen, not stay off the weaker one I used to have, lol.
Massive, massive props to the man. That is insane – I literally can’t even imagine how “one day at a time” looks in Hunter Biden’s shoes. If he can do that, he’s got more grit than the whole right wing of Congress combined, and won’t have any trouble at all not crumpling if required to testify live.
To be fair, you have no way of possibly knowing he’s stayed clean.
Also, from what I understand, the guy is packing a massive dong, so I’m sure that helps too. Much less embarrassing than it could have been for him due to our societal norms or whatever.
Edit: not sure why this comment would be controversial. As a “former” addict myself, I know first hand how well some people can hide their use. Anyone who has ever experienced addiction, and relapsed, would tell you that you really can’t know for sure. You just can’t.
Unless you’re testing hair samples or some shit.
To be fair, you have no way of possibly knowing he’s stayed clean.
Sure I do. He is the number one subject of interest to the entire right-wing media machine. The political paparazzi are all over everything he does. Yet he is able to meet with his attorneys and prosecutors and address questions about possibly testifying before Congress again. In all of these brief public appearances he appears clean and sober.
And that doesn’t even include all the everyday clean living that no one is reporting on because it’s not news, but would be worldwide news INSTANTLY if there were any indication whatsoever that he is no longer clean and sober.
If Hunter Biden falls off the wagon again, the entire world will know it and probably the same day.
