Chip Roy accuses Democrats of violating rules in talking about deposition

Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) went after House Democrats who denounced the Hunter Biden deposition Wednesday, accusing those who discussed the contents of Biden’s testimony as breaking House rules.

Multiple House Democrats blasted the investigation into Hunter Biden and the impeachment probe of his father, President Biden, as a waste of time and political move. Some included details Wednesday of what the younger Biden discussed while in a closed-doors deposition with lawmakers on Capitol Hill.

“My colleagues, by the way, are breaking House rules,” Roy said in a Fox News interview Wednesday. “Not just some rules we set up for this deposition, [but] United States House of Representatives rules by getting into the specifics and talking about specific questions during the deposition.”

Reps. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) and Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) were among the Democrats who derided the apparent focus on the use of a speakerphone during Hunter Biden’s business meetings. They complained of multiple questions focusing on the technology.

“They seem to be obsessively focused on speakerphones and use of speakerphone,” Raskin told reporters during a break in the deposition. “I did not know that that was the devil’s technology, but apparently it is.”

Roy painted the Democrats’ complaints as purely distractions and said the deposition Wednesday did not answer the key questions at the heart of the GOP’s allegations of corruption.

“There’s no good answers to why Joe Biden was present when [Hunter Biden] was having these business dealings with folks,” he said. “We didn’t learn anything today that does not underscore the serious concerns we can all see at the evidence sitting right in front of us.”