Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-N.Y.) said House Republicans’ investigation into President Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, should continue despite the president’s decision to pardon his son on Sunday.
“Our investigation must continue, I believe, to let the American people know the truth, even if these pardons are taking place,” she said on Fox News on Thursday.
Upon host Elizabeth MacDonald questioning the constitutionality of Biden’s “full and unconditional” pardon, Malliotakis said the pardon should be challenged and thrown out in court.
“I think that you’ll see members of from Oversight Committee and other committees that have worked so diligently on this try to seek out those arguments,” she said.
The pardon has sparked widespread criticism from lawmakers, with both a number of Democrats and Republicans speaking out against Biden’s decision.
A jury found Hunter Biden guilty of three felony counts in June for lying about his drug use on an application to buy a firearm and unlawfully possessing it thereafter. He pleaded guilty to nine additional federal tax charges in September and was scheduled to be sentenced in both cases before the pardon was issued.
“No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter’s cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my son — and that is wrong,” President Biden said in a statement accompanying the pardon.
Biden had previously denied that he would grant his son a pardon on multiple occasions.
