Hunter Biden attorney Kevin Morris sits for closed-door interview with GOP-led House committees

Hunter Biden's attorney and Democratic donor Kevin Morris appeared on Capitol Hill on Thursday to be questioned by members of the House Oversight and House Judiciary Committees. 

The closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill is part of the Republicans' ongoing impeachment inquiry into the President, and was set to focus on Morris' well-documented financial relationship with the younger Biden.

Sources familiar with the interview told The Messenger that Morris told lawmakers he loaned Hunter Biden around $5 million, and that his loan to the Biden son had nothing to do with politics.

Rep. James Comer said during the interview that the loan to Hunter Biden were to help him pay back his taxes, which came as his father’s presidential bid was ongoing.

“There’s so many political implications,” Comer said during a break in the deposition on Thursday. “I think the most concerning thing is the fact that Kevin Morris is a politically active person, and they had a problem prior to the presidential election with the president’s son owing taxes.”

Kevin Morris “came in and solved the problem,” Comer said.

“At the end of the day, this is all about helping Joe Biden and getting rid of a problem that Joe Biden had, with his son at the point of being arrested for failure to pay taxes," Comer added.

Morris said that he never spoke with Joe Biden or anyone in the White House about the loan, and that he did not seek favors from federal officials for the payment.

Morris reportedly stated that he still expects Hunter Biden to pay the loan back.

Two sources told the Washington Examiner that Morris is just one of many of the first son's business associates to be questioned by the aforementioned committees in the near future. Sources told the outlet that Mervyn Yan and Rob Walker are scheduled to be interviewed next week, while Eric Schwerin will appear the week after.

Rep. Jamie Raskin told reporters after the Morris interview that "I can’t say what the president was aware of" in relation to how much Biden knew about Morris helping Hunter Biden financially in 2010. 

Raskin also criticized Republicans for "attacking Hunter Biden’s friends."

In response, the House Judiciary GOP wrote on X, "Raskin seems upset about the Kevin Morris interview. Shows you he’s worried."

In a statement to CBS News, Morris' lawyer Bryan Sullivan argued that his client's relationship with Hunter Biden was all above board.

"Hunter is not only a client of Kevin's," Morris' lawyer Bryan Sullivan told CBS News, "he is his friend and there is no prohibition against helping a friend in need, despite the inability of these Republican Chairmen and their allies to imagine such a thing."

Sullivan claimed that Morris had purchased $875,000 of his friend's art for no other reason than a desire to add to his art collection, adding that he "has bought a number of pieces ... paying the same amounts that other purchasers would have paid."

During a recent interview with The Los Angeles Times, Hunter Biden said, "I don't know where I would be if not for Kevin, and I don't mean just because he has loaned me money to survive this onslaught, I mean because he has given me back my dignity. He's been a brother to me."