House GOP plans to subpoena Hunter Biden over laptop, question who ‘the big guy’ is

"We will subpoena Hunter Biden," House GOP conference chair Elise Stefanik told the New York Post in a recent interview with the outlet, in regards to the wave of subpoenas that GOP members intend to deliver. "It should concern every American that they did this for the Biden family's financial gain, which came at the cost of our national security," Stefanik said of the laptop evidence.

Hunter Biden abandoned his laptop at a Delaware computer repair shop in April of 2019. Just one month before the 2020 presidential election, the New York Post published its first bombshell story regarding the computer's contents, a copy of which they received from former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani.

The story of the laptop was brought back into the national spotlight recently after The New York Times finally regarded the hard drive as being authentic.

According to a laptop email obtained by The Post sent from Hunter Biden's business partner James Gilliar, "the big guy" is described as a business partner in a Chinese business venture entitled to 10 percent of the profits. The email states that the young Biden would hold the so-called big guy's shares.

"That's one of the critical questions — perhaps the most critical question," said Stefanik, who added that she believes "the big guy" was the elder Biden.

Tony Bobulinski, another Hunter Biden business partner who had appeared frequently in emails on the hard drive, has said there is "no question" President Biden was "the big guy." Bobulinski, appearing on Tucker Carlson's primetime Fox News show in October 2020, called Biden's denial "a blatant lie."

"If confirmed, it would tie the president concretely to the web of shady foreign business ventures his son finagled over the last decade," the New York Post wrote.

"The American people absolutely deserve answers," Stefanik said. "There is no greater ethical concern or frankly conspiracy … whether this president is compromised because of his illegal ties to his family members."

If Hunter did find himself before Congress, legal experts told The Post that the process would be a grinding one and that Biden's son would likely plead the Fifth.

"If there is any chance our client has any civil or criminal liability, we will always advise that client to exercise their 5th amendment rights," criminal defense attorney and First Amendment Lawyers Association's Barry Covert told The Post. "I would be telling Hunter to do your father a favor and not comment on this."

Despite this prediction, Stefanik said that Republicans are not discouraged.

"Make no mistake, the subpoenas will rain down if they do not turn over documents and answers our questions," Stefanik said.

A "Senate report found that a firm linked to Hunter Biden got $3.5 million from a Russian billionaire who has yet to face US sanctions for Putin’s genocide in Ukraine. Why were they left off Joe Biden’s sanction list?" Stefanik asked.

Hunter has denied receiving such payments in the past, and White House press secretary Jen Psaki has stated the report had "no confirmation," The Post reported.

Other questions on the table that would be asked are whether Hunter still owns a 10 percent stake in Chinese private equity firm BHR Partners, as well as queries into a construction company that received lucrative building contracts in Iraq while Hunter's uncle, James Biden, served as executive vice president, Stefanik noted.

"We are already preparing document request[s] and investigations of numerous federal agencies and individuals," Stefanik said, noting that the process would get going on "Day one." Hunter is the subject in just one of several probes that will run concurrently, House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy previously told The Post.