House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said that the Department of Justice’s deal with Hunter Biden could trigger more legal trouble for the president’s son after he bargained to plead guilty to three federal charges on Tuesday.
Hours after the agreement was announced, McCarthy said that the DOJ’s investigation isn’t linked to House Republicans’ probes into the younger Biden’s overseas business deals that Republicans allege involve bribery and influence-peddling.
Several weeks ago, Republicans on the House Oversight Committee were embroiled in a battle with the FBI over information that came from a paid FBI informant through an FD-1023 tip sheet. That document claimed that Hunter Biden and President Joe Biden each took $5 million in bribes from an executive at a Ukrainian energy company, Burisma Holdings, from an executive as the younger Biden sat on the company’s board….