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(NewsNation) — House Republicans accidental President Joe Biden's pardon of his son, Hunter Biden, volition not mean the extremity of investigations into the Biden family.
A Republican root acquainted with the probe said the White House has continued to obstruct the investigation, citing papers from the National Archives that person not been turned over.
"The Committee continues to prosecute this information, and volition not instrumentality immoderate aboriginal steps arsenic it relates to the Biden household probe disconnected the table, including perchance interviewing Hunter Biden again," the root said. "The Committee’s enactment frankincense acold has exposed the information to the American people, paving the mode for President Trump to cleanable location wrong the Deep State to forestall further cover-ups for the Biden Crime Family.”
Republicans person launched aggregate investigations into the Biden family, trying to nexus Biden to his son's concern dealings.
Of the investigations, nary grounds has surfaced that proves the president was progressive successful his son's concern deals oregon influenced argumentation based connected his family's interests.
Biden pardoned his lad connected Sunday, a reversal of his erstwhile position erstwhile helium repeatedly said helium would not usage his pardon powerfulness connected behalf of Hunter Biden.
The pardon was 1 of the astir sweeping successful caller history, with Biden ensuring his lad could not beryllium charged with immoderate national crimes committed betwixt 2014 and 2024.
Republicans criticized Biden's reversal on with a fig of Democrats.
Others questioned whether the determination would mean that Hunter Biden has mislaid his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.
Hunter Biden inactive has his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination erstwhile it comes to immoderate authorities charges oregon imaginable aboriginal charges that don’t autumn nether the purview of Joe Biden’s pardon, proceedings lawyer John Fishwick told NewsNation.
However, since helium is fundamentally immune from immoderate charges during a ten-year period, helium nary longer needs to asseverate his Fifth Amendment rights. That opens the doorway for him to beryllium called upon successful investigations of others including his father, helium said.
So helium doesn’t “lose” his rights, they conscionable nary longer apply, Fishwick said, calling the concern “uncharted territory.”
It could mean that Hunter Biden could beryllium compelled to attest against his begetter earlier Congress if the investigations proceed with the adjacent league of Congress wherever Republicans volition power some the House and the Senate.
NewsNation's Safia Samee Ali contributed to this story.
