Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., criticized Hunter Biden's attorneys on Monday for threatening the Department of Justice that they would call Joe Biden as a witness if prosecutors charged the president's son.
Comer, chair of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, was reacting to a Politico report over the weekend attorney Chris Clark, when he was working for Hunter Biden, sent a 32-page letter last fall to the DOJ threatening to call the president as a "fact witness" if they decided to charge the younger Biden.
Comer, as well as Judiciary Committee Chair Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, described the action as a threat.
"Hunter Biden's attorneys' threats to call Joe Biden to testify in his son's legal defense is just another example of how the Bidens have used 'the brand' to receive privileges no other American would ever be given," Comer told the Washington Examiner.
Jordan told the Examiner that Clark's missive "sounded like more of a threat."
"You wonder how President Biden would handle that," Jordan said.
Politico unearthed more than 300 pages of emails and documents that would lead to what Comer has called a "sweetheart" plea deal for Hunter Biden, a deal questioned by U.S. District Court Judge Maryellen Noreika of Delaware and eventually withdrawn by the DOJ.
Republicans have bashed the plea deal drafted by David Weiss, the U.S. attorney for Delaware who was recently appointed by the DOJ as special counsel to investigate Hunter Biden.
"This of all cases justifies neither the spectacle of a sitting president testifying at a criminal trial nor the potential for a resulting Constitutional crisis," Clark wrote in the letter obtained by Politico.
Clark stepped down from Hunter Biden's legal team last week because he could be called as a witness over the plea dispute.