McCarthy rips into Hunter Biden ‘pay-to-play’ deal with foreign business when asked about Trump indictment
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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) ridiculed President Joe Biden’s family in light of Hunter Biden’s former business partner testifying this week.
“It really begins to feel like it’s a two justice system,” McCarthy said at a press conference in Clovis, California, noting he didn’t see the events Thursday because he was in meetings.
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Hunter Biden’s ex-business partner Devon Archer, who sat on the board of the Ukrainian oil company Burisma with the president’s son, gave testimony to Congress earlier this week. House Republicans released the complete transcript on Thursday.
“We’ve now found that they created 20 shell companies when he was vice president,” McCarthy said. “We’ve now found that the business partner says the vice president called in 20 times. We now found that the vice president went to dinner — a little pay to play.”
Archer said then-Vice President Joe Biden was on speaker phone around 20 times to talk with Burisma executives, telling Congress that he believed Hunter Biden wanted to “leverage” his fathers brand “but nothing of material was discussed.”
“Hunter Biden got a brand new Porsche, $142,000 car,” McCarthy continued. “Hunter Biden got millions of dollars after the one dinner with the oligarch from Moscow.”
Archer said in his testimony that Hunter Biden received $142,300 in 2014, which he used to buy a sports car.
“I believe it was a Fisker first and then a Porsche,” Archer told the committee.
Trump was indicted for a third time on Tuesday on conspiracy charges to overturn the 2020 election. When asked about Trump’s election denial, McCarthy listed off several incidents in the Democratic Party. Examples included Hilary Clinton saying the 2016 presidential election was not conducted legitimately, the Democratic National Committee in the 2016 election when they filed a lawsuit arguing Russian collusion, and the narrative that Al Gore beat George Bush in 2000.
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“But were any of them prosecuted? Were any of them put in jail? Were any of them held with no response to be able to get out? The answer is no,” McCarthy said.
“So stop using government to go after people who politically disagree with you. That is wrong, and that should stop now,” McCarthy said, raising his voice as he continued to launch accusations of a two-tiered justice system.