House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., criticized Hunter Biden for planning to skip this week's public hearing and floated potential criminal referrals.
"I think that we're at the point in the investigation where we need to hear the discrepancies," Comer told Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures," saying that there were "massive discrepancies" between what Biden's business partners told Congress and what Biden himself said in his testimony.
"I fully expect Hunter Biden to show up," Comer said. "If he does not show up, then it's not going to end well for the Bidens, because we have three witnesses ... that have already testified under oath to significantly different stories as to what exactly the Biden influence-peddling schemes were. This is very serious because we're at the point now of criminal referrals."
Comer did not specify who would be referred criminally. But he added that the committee has been able to get most of the information it requested and has "accumulated lots of evidence of wrongdoing," despite facing obstruction from the White House and Biden legal team.
"I can't tell you a single legitimate business the Bidens had, other than they were influence-peddling," Comer said.
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