Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives sought to deliver on a campaign promise to their most hardline supporters on Wednesday, with a public hearing on a laptop computer said to belong to Democratic President Joe Biden's businessman son, Hunter.
The hearing marked the first public proceeding of an investigation into the Biden family's business dealings led by committee Chairman James Comer, who has accused Hunter Biden of leveraging his father's political influence to pursue lucrative international business deals.
Republicans described the decision as part of a conspiracy to suppress revelations about Hunter Biden and his father ahead of the 2020 election, saying it coincided with a letter by former intelligence officers describing the laptop as Russian disinformation. "I hope that you are not abusing the power as chairman of this committee and that you are not wasting taxpayer dollars on a fishing expedition into a civilian child of a president for political purposes," Goldman told Comer.
"I am here to tell you that doing nothing is not an option. If we continue to do nothing, violence is going to happen again," said Anika Collier Navaroli, a former member of Twitter's U.S. safety policy team.
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