Marjorie Taylor Greene Rages Over How Hunter Biden Treated Her

Marjorie Taylor Greene reacted angrily after Hunter Biden walked out of a Congressional hearing on Wednesday as she was speaking.

Members of the Republican-led House Oversight Committee met to charge the president’s son with the crime of contempt of Congress, after he insisted on making his testimony to the committee in the impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden transparent rather than behind closed doors, as they had requested. If the charge is approved by the whole House in a vote, it would give authority to the Department of Justice to prosecute Hunter.

“Accordingly, Mr. Biden has violated federal law, and must be held in contempt of Congress,” the House Oversight Committee said in its resolution recommending the House find Hunter Biden in contempt. “The deposition subpoenas to Mr. Biden were issued as part of the Committees’ impeachment inquiry. As will be explained in detail below, Mr. Biden’s testimony is necessary for the Committees to determine whether sufficient grounds exist for the Committees to draft articles of impeachment against President Biden.”

At one point during the meeting on Wednesday, the younger Biden stood up and left the room as Taylor Greene began to speak.

“Excuse me, Hunter, apparently you’re afraid of my words,” Greene said.

Another member of the Committee was heard saying: “Wow, that’s too bad,” after he left the meeting.

Following the incident, the Georgia Republican raged at Hunter Biden in a series of posts on X, formerly Twitter.

Newsweek has contacted representatives for Taylor Greene to comment on this story.

In one post, she wrote: “Was Hunter Biden on drugs today when he showed up to the House Oversight Committee and then ran away from me scared?”

In another, she accused him of having “fled the scene” because she was “exposing the truth.”

A third post said: “Hunter Biden ran from me scared. Why? Because I deliver the truth.”

In a fourth she said he was like “a toddler having a temper tantrum.”

Following Hunter Biden’s refusal to attend the closed-door meeting, his lawyer, Abbe Lowell, told the Associated Press in a statement: “It’s clear the Republican chairmen aren’t interested in getting the facts or they would allow Hunter to testify publicly.”

“Instead, House Republicans continue to play politics by seeking an unprecedented contempt motion against someone who has from the first request offered to answer all their proper questions,” the statement added.

A spokesperson for Lowell provided Newsweek with a statement, saying:

“Hunter Biden was and is a private citizen. Despite this, Republicans have sought to use him as a surrogate to attack his father. And, despite their improper partisan motives, on six occasions (from February to today) we have offered to work with the House committees to see what and how relevant information to any legitimate inquiry could be provided.”

The spokesperson added Lowell sent five letters to James Comer and his committee to meet in person or call to discuss issues the committee was interested in, which he claimed were “ignored” before the subpoena in November for a closed-door deposition was issued.

“Ignoring that invitation and proving again that they cared little for the truth and wanted only to ‘move the needle of political support’ that Chairman Comer confessed was his purpose, the Republican chairs have today commandeered an unprecedented resolution to hold someone in contempt who has offered to publicly answer all their proper questions,” the spokesperson added. “What are they afraid of?”