A senior Democrat downplayed concerns that Hunter Biden received money from the same Chinese energy company that doled out cash to the accused informant Gal Luft.
“Who cares if they had money from the same company,” Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) said Wednesday during a brief exchange at a House Oversight Committee hearing.
Luft has been charged with eight counts, including acting as an unregistered foreign agent for Chinese entities.
Throughout Wednesday’s Oversight Committee hearing on the IRS whistleblower allegations, Democrats pressed Republicans to take Luft seriously, suggesting he undermined her credibility now that her allegation is public knowledge.
Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) tried to defend those attacks by highlighting the fact that both Luft and Hunter Biden got money from the Chinese energy firm CEFC.
“I have never met Gal Luft in my life. All I know is that he was getting money from the same company that the Bidens were making money from, CEFC,” Comer told Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) in response to his criticism of the GOP’s interest in Luft.
Garcia then demanded Republicans disclose contacts with Luft, whom he described as a “Chinese spy,” prompting Comer to question whether Hunter Biden was a Chinese spy because he also took money from the CEFC.
That’s when Goldman stepped in and asked “Who cares” if Hunter Biden and Luft had money from the CEFC conglomerate.
Goldman’s statements clarify the mindset of Democrats regarding Republican concerns and allegations of influence peddling by the Biden family.
Republicans have hinted that Hunter Biden may have been involved in similar activity that landed Luft on the wrong side of the law.
CEFC is known to have ties to Chinese military intelligence.
Luft gave an interview to the FBI in 2019, charging that future President Biden was compromised because of his son’s activity in China.
He was arrested in Cyprus last February and fled after being released on bail ahead of his extradition. His current whereabouts are unknown.
Luft has alleged that the indictment was intended to undermine a potential witness to the Oversight Committee.
Goldman was one of the most outspoken Democrats on the Oversight panel trying to push back against GOP narratives about the Biden family.
He does little signed a letter along with ranking member Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) to urge the panel to investigate Luft.
Wednesday’s hearing featured testimony from IRS Supervisory Agent Gary Shapley and IRS Agent Joseph Ziegler, whose names were publicly revealed for the first time Wednesday.
Both alleged that the federal investigation into the first child was riddled with political favoritism.
Hunter Biden reached a plea deal with federal prosecutors in which he will plead guilty to two minor tax offenses and sign a pretrial diversion agreement on a charge of unlawful possession of a firearm while addicted to illicit drugs
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