GOP Senator Calls On Senate Judiciary Committee To Investigate Don Jr., Hunter Biden. Most Members Haven’t Even Opened The Letter
Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee were split along party lines on whether to support Republican Utah Sen. John Curtis' calls to investigate and subpoena Donald Trump Jr. and Hunter Biden despite not having read his letter.
Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee split along party lines on whether to support Republican Utah Sen. John Curtis’ calls to investigate and subpoena Donald Trump Jr. and Hunter Biden despite not having read his letter.
Curtis urged the committee in a letter to investigate the use of presidential family relationships for private financial benefit, citing Donald Trump Jr.’s and Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings. Some members of the committee appeared interested in supporting Curtis’ requests, though most of them have yet to read the letter.
“I therefore respectfully request that the Senate Judiciary Committee launch an investigation into the use of presidential family relationships for private financial benefit, preferential treatment, or access by domestic and foreign interests,” Curtis wrote. “As part of that investigation, I urge the Committee to subpoena Donald Trump Jr. and Hunter Biden to testify regarding their past business dealings, relationships with foreign individuals and entities, gifts, or other benefits they have received, and any instances in which their relationship to the President was invoked or understood to private value.”
Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley told the Daily Caller News Foundation and other reporters that he had not read the letter hours after its release.
“I can’t answer that question for you, or him, or anybody else because I just told a journalist downstairs I wasn’t going to answer the question until I read the letter,” said Grassley, an Iowa Republican.
When asked why he hadn’t read the letter,” Grassley said, “I just got to town.”
Retiring Republican North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis said he would not oppose an investigation.
“I haven’t . I hear it’s about an investigation. It’s up to the chair, I would oppose it,” Tillis told the DCNF when asked if he would support an investigation.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune said