Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-N.Y.) stated Home Republicans’ investigation into President Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, ought to proceed regardless of the president’s determination to pardon his son on Sunday.
“Our investigation must continue, I believe, to let the American people know the truth, even if these pardons are taking place,” she stated on Fox Information on Thursday.
Upon host Elizabeth MacDonald questioning the constitutionality of Biden’s “full and unconditional” pardon, Malliotakis stated the pardon ought to be challenged and thrown out in court docket.
“I think that you’ll see members of from Oversight Committee and other committees that have worked so diligently on this try to seek out those arguments,” she stated.
The pardon has sparked widespread criticism from lawmakers, with each various Democrats and Republicans talking out in opposition to Biden’s determination.
A jury discovered Hunter Biden responsible of three felony counts in June for mendacity about his drug use on an utility to purchase a firearm and unlawfully possessing it thereafter. He pleaded responsible to 9 extra federal tax expenses in September and was scheduled to be sentenced in each instances earlier than the pardon was issued.
“No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter’s cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my son — and that is wrong,” President Biden stated in a press release accompanying the pardon.
Biden had beforehand denied that he would grant his son a pardon on a number of events.
