Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo and Congressman Byron Donalds (R-FL) breathlessly speculated that Hunter Biden’s latest indictment is part of a scheme to politically shield his father, President Joe Biden.

Donalds joined Bartiromo on Sunday Morning Futures to talk about the House GOP’s most recent efforts to launch their impeachment inquiry into the president. Bartiromo started by asking if Hunter won’t have to show up for a deposition on that investigation now that DOJ Special Counsel David Weiss has indicted the president’s son on nine tax charges in addition to Hunter’s previous three gun charges.

After Donalds suggested that Hunter’s deposition could still happen in a closed-door congressional session, Bartiromo took the conversation into conspiratorial territory over the timing on the new charges.

I’m just wondering if the timing of this indictment on Hunter Biden is partly cover-up because the DOJ had this information. They’ve been sitting on this for a long time, but they decided to indict Hunter Biden the weekend before was supposed to go under oath in a closed-door testimony.

“I totally agree the timing is suspect,” Donalds seconded. “The only reason that it took so long to be indicted is because his last name is Biden and because House Republicans uncovered this web of corruption surrounding Joe Biden that implicates Hunter and James Biden.”

Despite Donalds’ claims, Fox News White House Correspondent Peter Doocy has pointed out that House Republicans still haven’t produced evidence that the president personally profited from his family’s foreign business activities. The conversation between Bartiromo and Donalds follows a CNN appearance by House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY), who ran the same theory by a very skeptical Jake Tapper.

Watch above via Fox News.

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