Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., told Newsmax on Friday that House Republicans have looked into subpoenaing a sitting president as part of their impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden and found it’s “pretty difficult,” although the option is still on the table.
On Thursday, the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, which Comer chairs, invited Biden to testify as part of the inquiry regarding alleged influence-peddling schemes and other criminal activity by the president and members of his family. The president’s son, Hunter Biden, testified last month behind closed doors and has resisted calls from Comer to testify publicly.
“If the president could be easily subpoenaed, the Democrats would have had [Donald] Trump in front of the Oversight Committee four years ago,” Comer told “Eric Bolling The Balance,” referring to the first impeachment of the former president. “What we do is before any subpoenas, we invite people to come. For a subpoena to be honored in a court ruling, you have to make every sincere effort to bring people to come by invitation first. Then you follow up with the subpoena.
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