Fox News anchor totally dismantles Democrat's narrative defending Hunter Biden from contempt charges

Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) believes Republicans are hypocrites for pursuing contempt charges against Hunter Biden, but Fox News anchor John Roberts on Wednesday poked holes through Moskowitz's claims.

The interview took place after Hunter Biden made a surprise appearance at a House Oversight Committee hearing focused on holding him in contempt.

Moskowitz's argument is twofold. First, he claimed Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R) invited Hunter to testify publicly, but he is now "reneging the invitation" and only wants the testimony to take place in a "basement" to produce a transcript Americans will "never see." Second, he claimed GOP lawmakers who defied the Jan. 6 committee must be held in contempt if Hunter faces the same punishment.

Roberts quickly disarmed the narrative.

"First of all, you said a transcript that will never see the light of day. These transcripts will be released to the public. I mean, that's part of the deal — it was the same thing with the Jan. 6 committee," the anchor responded.

"And in terms of whether or not Comer ever said, 'Look, you can do it behind closed doors, you can do it in public' — the subpoena was specifically for a behind-closed-doors deposition, which Hunter Biden continues to refuse to do. So legal experts are saying it's not what Comer may or may not have said in public, it's what the subpoena says," Roberts pointed out.

His narrative totally undercut, Moskowitz conceded that Hunter's attorneys are those in a position to battle the subpoena.

Moskowitz, however, did commit to support the contempt resolutions against Hunter — which will go to a full House vote — only if the GOP congressmen who defied the Jan. 6 committee receive equal punishment.

But this is misleading. First, because those subpoenas were issued by a committee in the 117th Congress, they expired when the Congress ended on Jan. 3, 2023, and thus they are no longer enforceable. Second, Congress, by virtue of not bringing contempt charges against the GOP lawmakers, chose not to punish them, though they were referred to the House Ethics Committee.

Putting a nail in the coffin, Roberts played clips of Democrats previously defending closed-door depositions as necessary when the Jan. 6 committee was conducting its investigation.

"A lot of critics are saying, Congressman, 'Rules for me, but not for thee,'" Roberts noted.

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