Key GOP impeachment witness won't attend open committee hearing, citing 'short notice'
Source: ABC News
March 18, 2024, 4:41 PM
Devon Archer, a key witness in House Republicans' impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, will not attend a high-profile open hearing this week, citing what his attorney characterized as a "patently unreasonable" amount of time to prepare.
Matthew Schwartz, an attorney for Archer -- a former Hunter Biden business associate, revealed Monday in a letter to a top Oversight Committee investigator that the panel only contacted him on Friday in an "end-of-day email" to inquire about whether his client would attend the hearing on Wednesday, which Schwartz says "is sure to be a closely-watched public hearing that the committee has provocatively entitled 'Influence Peddling: Examining Joe Biden's Abuse of Public Office.'"
"The answer is no," Schwartz wrote to the committee, according to a copy of the letter obtained by ABC News. "Providing such short notice for a witness's public appearance before the Committee on a matter of national importance is patently unreasonable."
Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer publicly invited Archer to appear alongside Hunter Biden and two other witnesses in their probe -- Jason Galanis and Tony Bobulinski -- at the public hearing on March 7 and has frequently promoted the hearing in public statements since then.
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