Hunter Biden Adds to Legal Team Ahead of Looming Probes

First son Hunter Biden has added a high-profile Washington defense attorney whose client roster includes a who’s-who of embattled politicians to his legal team as House Republicans plan to launch investigations into his overseas business interests as soon as next month.

Abbe Lowell will be responsible for coordinating the 52-year-old Hunter’s defense during the congressional probes that will begin after Republicans take over the House in the new year. 

“Hunter Biden has retained Abbe Lowell to help advise him and be part of his legal team to address the challenges he is facing,” Kevin Morris — another Hunter Biden lawyer — told NBC News, which first reported on Lowell’s retention.

“Lowell is a well-known Washington-based attorney who has represented numerous public officials and high-profile people in DOJ investigations and trials as well as congressional investigations,” Morris added. “Mr. Lowell will handle congressional investigations and general strategic advice.”

Lowell, 70, served as chief minority counsel in the House of Representatives during the impeachment proceedings against President Bill Clinton in the late 1990s. He also successfully defended prominent Democrats John Edwards and Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) from federal corruption charges in 2012 and 2017, respectively.  

During the Trump administration, Lowell represented Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, during the Russia collusion investigations by Congress and the FBI.

Most recently, Lowell was the main lawyer for Tom Barrack, a President Donald Trump supporter and fundraiser, who was found not guilty last month by a Brooklyn federal jury on charges he unlawfully acted as a foreign agent.

Republicans, who won a narrow House majority in last month’s midterm elections, have put Hunter Biden’s business dealings squarely in their sights.

Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the incoming chair of the House Oversight Committee, and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), who will head up the House Judiciary Committee, have said their panels will investigate whether the first son’s business dealings put the nation’s security at risk and whether President Biden was benefiting from the relationships.

“Our investigation is about Joe Biden,” Comer told reporters last month as he previewed the probes. “Was Joe Biden directly involved with Hunter Biden’s business deals and is he compromised? That’s our investigation.”

“We’re not trying to prove Hunter Biden is a bad actor,” Comer added. “He is.”

The Post first exposed Hunter Biden’s business interests in China and Ukraine in a series of reports beginning in October 2020 based on emails and documents found in a laptop the first son abandoned at a Delaware computer repair store the year before.

The blockbuster reports gave Republicans the ammunition needed to pursue investigations into Hunter Biden and his family, but they were also the subject of censorship by Twitter and other social media platforms at the behest of the FBI.

Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of Twitter, has been releasing installments of the so-called “Twitter Files” since Dec. 2 that revealed the behind-the-scenes deliberations taking place among the tech company’s top executives to block The Post’s reporting.

On Monday, journalist Michael Shellenberger revealed that the FBI pushed Twitter to suppress The Post’s reporting because it could be part of a Russian effort to discredit then-candidate Biden in the weeks before the 2020 election.

The first installment of the “Twitter Files,” based on reporting from journalist Matt Taibbi, showed that a group of top executives decided to censor The Post’s Hunter Biden expose without telling then-Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey.

The group of execs used the rationale that the reporting violated the platform’s “hacked materials” policy.

“Hacking was the excuse, but within a few hours, pretty much everyone realized that wasn’t going to hold. But no one had the guts to reverse it,” a former employee told Taibbi.

The Biden White House has dismissed the upcoming Republican investigations as “politically motivated attacks chock full of long-debunked conspiracy theories.”

“President Biden is not going to let these political attacks distract him from focusing on Americans’ priorities, and we hope congressional Republicans will join us in tackling them instead of wasting time and resources on political revenge,” a White House spokesman has said.

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