Top Oversight Democrat Jamie Raskin says Hunter Biden did ‘really unlawful and wrong things’

Top Democrats on the House Oversight Committee gently dinged Hunter Biden on Sunday while distancing President Biden from his son’s scandals.

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), ranking member on the Oversight panel, argued politicians should let the “justice system run its course” — conceding Hunter Biden did “wrong things.”

“It does seem clear that this guy was addicted to drugs and did a lot of really unlawful and wrong things,” Raskin told ABC’s “This Week.”

On Friday, US Attorney General Merrick Garland announced that Delaware US Attorney David Weiss would be granted special counsel authority to investigate Hunter Biden.

The announcement came in the wake of congressional testimony from IRS whistleblowers alleging political favoritism in the federal probe and the implosion of Hunter Biden’s plea deal last month.

Raskin acknowledged the federal investigation of the elder Biden was “bumpy,” but indicated he still has faith in the system.

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“This is why we have a Justice Department. Let’s just let them do their job,” he said.

The Maryland Democrat contended the crumbled plea deal for Hunter over tax and firearm charges paved the way for the special counsel appointment.

“And with the collapse of the plea agreement that he had apparently worked out with Hunter Biden, now he wants to be certain that he’s got the authority to go bring charges wherever he wants,” Raskin said, referring to Weiss.

After a judge tore into the initial plea deal, Hunter Biden ultimately pleaded not guilty last month to two misdemeanor charges for willful failure to pay federal income taxes and a felony charge of illegal possession of a firearm while addicted to illicit drugs.

Oversight colleague Dan Goldman (D-NY) steered clear of bashing Hunter Biden outright, but acknowledged allegations from Hunter’s longtime business partner Devon Archer that the first son leveraged the family brand for financial gain.

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“I think that same witness also made very clear that they never discussed business [and] that Hunter Biden was trying to promote an illusion of access to his father for his own reasons,” Goldman told CNN’s “State of the Union.”

“That’s Hunter Biden. And you can make it whatever judgment you want to make about whether that was appropriate or not,” he added, distancing President Biden from the ordeal.

The New York congressman emphasized that the “only official action” the elder Biden took related to his son’s business dealings was to push for the ouster of Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin, who was investigating Burisma Holdings.

“It was detrimental to Burisma as Devon Archer, this new star witness for the Republicans, said because the Burisma had the corrupt prosecutor general — and I quote — the witness under control,” Goldman said.

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Shokin had been probing Burisma, an energy giant on whose board Hunter sat.

Goldman also juxtaposed Democrats’ handling of Hunter Biden with Republicans’ reaction to the indictments against former President Donald Trump.

“If Hunter Biden has committed crimes, he should be charged with them. I’m a Democrat saying that,” said.

“You don’t hear any currently elected Republicans saying that if Donald Trump committed crimes, he should be charged,” he added. “That’s a critical distinction that the public needs to understand.”

Both Raskin and Goldman underscored that Weiss was appointed to his Delaware post by Trump.

The White House has maintained the current chief executive hasn’t discussed his son’s dealings.

“I never talked business with anybody,” President Biden told a reporter last week.

Meanwhile, congressional Republicans are ratcheting up their scrutiny of the Biden family.

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On Wednesday, the Oversight Committee highlighted financial records and revealed the Biden family and its allies raked in at least $20 million from foreign sources — including in Russia, Kazakhstan and Ukraine.

President Biden is also facing a special counsel investigation of his own from Robert Hur, who’s probing the president’s handling of classified documents.