Republicans Sent Secret Subpoena For 15 Years Of Hunter Biden’s Phone Records

WASHINGTON — House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) quietly sent telecom giant AT&T a subpoena last week demanding 15 years of phone records related to President Joe Biden’s son.

Comer issued the formal demand for Hunter Biden’s phone records as part of Republicans’ impeachment inquiry against the president. So far, thousands of pages of Biden family bank records and more than a dozen witness interviews haven’t revealed wrongdoing by Joe Biden.

The impeachment effort suffered a spectacular setback last month when the Justice Department announced charges against an FBI informant whose allegedly false statements served as a key piece of evidence in the case against Biden. The AT&T subpoena shows, however, that Republicans have kept digging.

Democrats on the committee, led by Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), revealed the existence of the subpoena on Tuesday in a staff memo obtained by HuffPost.

“This subpoena for 15 years’ worth of Hunter Biden’s phone records is just the latest evidence that Republicans’ investigation, which has failed to uncover so much as a scintilla of evidence of an impeachable offense by President Biden, is nothing more than a transparent effort by the Chairman to harass the President and his family, indulge [Donald] Trump’s demands for political retribution, and amplify Russian propaganda and disinformation,” the memo says.

The Mar. 6 subpoena specifically asked for “account information, communications, and payment history of all AT&T accounts affiliated with Robert Hunter Biden,” according to the Democratic memo, which said Comer suspects the phone records could also encompass a personal phone line used by Joe Biden when he was vice president.

Comer claims Joe Biden participated in his