Members of the House Judiciary Committee expected Hunter Biden to continue the same surprise "song and dance" in front of them that he performed when dropping in for a surprise appearance at a House Oversight Committee hearing where Republicans were pushing for a vote to hold him in contempt of Congress, Rep. Scott Fitzgerald said Thursday on Newsmax.
"That ended up not happening because they didn't have enough time to sweep the Judiciary Room, the Selective Service and Secret Service and then also move kind of quickly out of the building," the Wisconsin Republican told Newsmax's "Wake Up America," adding that he has never seen anything like Biden's appearance in the time he's been in Washington.
"I think that the thing that was infuriating was that we knew that [Rep.] Eric Swalwell was kind of the individual member that had been making all this happen," said Fitzgerald.
The two committees ended up voting later in the day, and as the day progressed, it was obvious that some Democrats were getting nervous, he added.
"They had individual members that started to negotiate about how we could do some type of open hearing that would include something beyond the five-minute time limits," Fitzgerald said. "Some of these members got out over their skis, and it was later in the day that Swalwell made a motion in Judiciary just to adjourn. I think he's so far in bed with Hunter Biden on this stuff that it's almost like having somebody in the room that's working all of his angles for him."
Meanwhile, there have been questions about why Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer didn't ask the sergeant of arms to arrest Biden when he made his appearance, and while that didn't happen in that committee, there was a "full discussion" and an amendment made in the Judiciary Committee, said Fitzgerald.
"It was voted on in a bipartisan fashion that allows Congress to take that move to apprehend somebody and hold them," he said. "I'm unclear as to what that would look like or how that would happen, [whether] the Capitol Police would arrest somebody or how it [would] work."
The motion, which passed, "sent a message that we think that if he would show up again in a public setting, that probably could be something that we could pursue," said Fitzgerald. "We're just not confident anything's going to happen with any prosecution from the DOJ."
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Sandy Fitzgerald has more than three decades in journalism and serves as a general assignment writer for Newsmax covering news, media, and politics.
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