Dem lawmaker tries to cover for Joe Biden, but inadvertently 'tripped the wire' on him instead

Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) appeared to prove inadvertently Wednesday that President Joe Biden conversed with Hunter Biden about his business dealings.

At a House Oversight Committee hearing with two IRS whistleblowers, Goldman tried to prove that Biden — consistent with the president's repeated claims — was never involved in or talked with Hunter about his overseas business. Instead, Goldman appeared to undermine Biden.

While questioning whistleblower Gary Shapley, Goldman highlighted previous testimony in which Shapley recounted that Hunter Biden business associate Rob Walker allegedly told the FBI that Joe Biden once "stopped in" during a lunch meeting between Hunter, Walker, and executives from the Chinese energy firm CEFC, and during that meeting Hunter allegedly told his father, "I may be trying to start a company or try to do something with these guys."

Goldman seized on that comment.

"That doesn't sound much like Joe Biden was involved in whatever Hunter Biden was doing with the CEFC if Hunter Biden is telling him that he's trying to do business with them, does it?" he asked Shapley.

Shapely quickly pointed out what the quote makes obvious.

"No, but it does show that he told his father he was trying to do business and he was talking to his father about the business," he said.

Perhaps understanding what had just happened, Goldman talked over Shapley before he finished responding and used sarcasm to downplay the significance of inadvertently undermining Biden's central defense.

"OK, well, that is true. Hunter Biden does try to do business. That's correct," Goldman snarked before claiming Shapley's comments were proof that Biden is telling the truth.

In the eyes of legal scholar Jonathan Turley, the otherwise innocuous exchange in the heated Oversight hearing was "one of the most damaging moments in the hearing for the Bidens."

"Rep. Goldman just tripped the wire on Joe Biden. In trying to grill the whistleblowers to show that there is no evidence that Joe Biden was involved, he elicited an answer that the witnesses established that Joe Biden did discuss business deals of Hunter with the Chinese," Turley analyzed.

"Goldman prompted a sworn statement from the investigator that Biden did indeed discuss his son's business deals," he explained. "In doing so, Goldman may have delivered one of the most damaging moments in the hearing for the Bidens."

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