House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith hit back at Hunter Biden over his claims that his drug addiction was being weaponized against him in the House investigations into the Biden family's"influence peddling scheme."
Smith noted a section of the younger Biden's op-ed in which he said he was"accountable" for his"choices and mistakes" and did not see himself as a victim. The younger Biden's most high-profile venture involved the profitable position he took on the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company, in May 2014, one year before his brother died and his addiction problems escalated, according to his memoir. Hunter Biden noted in the op-ed that he has been sober for over four years,