GOP senator asks Senate Judiciary Committee to subpoena Donald Trump Jr. and Hunter Biden

September 22, 2026 / 9:24 AM EDT / CBS News

Washington — GOP Sen. John Curtis of Utah asked the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday to subpoena Donald Trump Jr. and Hunter Biden for testimony regarding their business dealings, relationships with foreign individuals and entities and gifts they received, after recent revelations about a Russian oligarch's financial involvement in the wedding of President Trump's eldest son.

"A toaster is a wedding gift. A private-island party paid for by a Putin-connected oligarch is something else," Curtis said in a post on X. "Republicans nearly wore out the subpoena machine investigating Hunter Biden's foreign relationships. We should not unplug it now."

In a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa and ranking member Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, Curtis asked that the committee "launch an investigation into the use of presidential family relationships for private financial benefit, preferential treatment, or access by domestic and foreign interests." As part of that investigation, he urged the committee to subpoena the eldest son of President Trump and the son of former President Joe Biden.

Curtis pointed in the letter to Hunter Biden conducting "substantial business" with foreign entities, including in China and…

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