Democrats Want Inquiry on GOP’s ‘Duping’ by Hunter Biden Accuser

Republican informant charged with working secretly for China
GOP chairman rejects Democrat Raskin’s request for probe

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By Billy House

July 12, 2023 at 4:11 PM UTC

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Democrats unsuccessfully sought an immediate US House inquiry into whether Republican lawmakers leveling accusations of corruption against presidential son Hunter Biden were misled by an informant who is now charged with working secretly for the Chinese Communist Party.

Their demand followed the unsealing Monday of a federal indictment charging Gal Luft — the purported whistleblower — with arms trafficking, breaking US sanctions against Iran, making false charges to federal agents and operating as an unregistered foreign agent of the Chinese Communist Party.