House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) joined “Fox & Friends Weekend” with Pete Hegseth to discuss calling Hunter Biden to appear before a scheduled committee hearing on electrifying the Postal Service fleet.
“The Democrats, when it comes to energy policy, are having a real ‘let them eat cake’ moment here when it comes to high gas prices. They’re taking this ‘Green New Deal’ moment to the postal service, they’re trying to electrify all the vehicles in the postal service and are having a committee hearing on it,” said Ranking Member Comer.
On April 1, 2022, Ranking Member Comer invited the President’s son to testify at an upcoming hearing titled, “It’s Electric: Developing the Postal Service Fleet of the Future.” In 2016, Hunter Biden helped facilitate the sale of an African cobalt mine from a U.S. company to a Chinese company, dealing a severe blow to the United States’ access to this critical element used to produce electric vehicle batteries.
“We suggested as a minority witness…let’s have Hunter Biden there to talk about how important these rare earth minerals are, because he’s made more money than anyone I know profiting from rare earth minerals. In fact, he negotiated a deal to sell a cobalt mine from an American company to a Chinese company,” continued Ranking Member Comer. “Why not have him come to Congress to talk about all of his expertise because he’s made a lot of money off this?”
Below is a Fox News article regarding Hunter Biden’s invitation to appear before the House Oversight Committee.
House Republicans have called on Hunter Biden to testify before Congress later this week, according to a letter from a senior House Republican.
“House Committee on Oversight and Reform Republicans request the attendance and testimony of Hunter Biden,” Ranking Member James Comer said in a letter to House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney.
The committee hearing, titled “It’s Electric: Developing the Postal Service Fleet of the Future,” is scheduled for Tuesday, April 5.
Comer went on to cite Biden’s supposed expertise in cobalt mining, which secured him a negotiating position with Chinese officials, he suggested.
“Mr. Biden is well positioned to inform the Committee about issues pertaining to African cobalt mines — a metal which is essential in the manufacturing of electric vehicles,” Comer said in the letter.
The Ranking Member also sent the letter to an attorney representing Biden amid an ongoing FBI investigation.
Hunter Biden was “part-owner of a venture involved in the $3.8 billion purchase by a Chinese conglomerate of one of the world’s largest cobalt deposits,” the New York Times reported in November 2021.
Biden, with two American partners, joined Chinese officials in 2013 to start a private equity firm that helped finance cobalt mining operations for Chinese-controlled companies. Biden, with the American partners, controlled 30 percent of the firm, according to the report.
The mining deals included a $2.65 billion acquisition of a cobalt mine, that Chinese company China Molybdenum purchased from the American company Freeport-McMoRan, the New York Times reported.
“It is unclear how the firm was chosen by China Molybdenum,” the report added, noting China has denied intentionally working with Biden.
Original source can be found here.
