A lawyer for the president's son claimed that a copy of the text was fake. Republicans said that the picture was never intended to mimic a real screenshot.
However, a spokesperson for Ways and Means toldon Friday that the photo was never intended to mimic a real screenshot, and that the message contained in the markup is directly from Shapley's testimony about Hunter Biden's alleged message.
"It's little surprise that Hunter Biden's attorneys are attempting to chill our investigation and discredit the whistleblowers who say they have already faced retaliation from the IRS and the Department of Justice despite statutory protections established by law," Smith said in a statement on following reports of Lowell's letter.
Lowell argued that the copy of Hunter Biden's text included a photo of the president's son from the White House Easter Egg roll in April 2022, well after when the message was supposedly sent in 2017. The attorney added that,"both images portray the message in a blue bubble, when WhatsApp messages are in green; one image super-imposed the Chinese flag for the contact ID, when surely that was not how a text or contact was kept; and one purports to be a screenshot with the '...' of someone composing a text when that does not happen on WhatsApp."
"These interviews were orchestrated recitations of mischaracterized and incomplete 'facts' by disgruntled agents who believed they knew better than the federal prosecutors who had all the evidence as they conducted their five-year investigation of Mr. Biden," Lowell wrote, according to the report from NBC News.
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