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Two top House Republicans — Rep. James Comer and Rep. Jim Jordan — who are expected to chair the House Oversight and Judiciary committees next year are planning to lay out the evidence they say they have gathered from whistleblowers that show President Biden’s son, Hunter, engaged in influence peddling and his father, potentially while serving as vice president, may have benefitted financially.
In a press conference on Thursday, Comer accused the Biden family of defrauding the United States, tax evasion, violating several laws and money laundering, among other accusations.
„The President’s participation in enriching his family is, in a word, abuse of the highest order,“ Comer said. „I want to be clear: This is an investigation of Joe Biden, and that’s where our focus will be next Congress.“
Ahead of the press conference Comer said the evidence has never been „packaged together“ and that his intention with laying out the information was to „make it very clear that from this point on, this is no longer the Hunter Biden investigation. This is the Joe Biden investigation.“ He called Hunter Biden a „corrupt national security threat“ — claiming his panel has evidence of relationships with Chinese, Russian and Ukrainian officials.
On Thursday, Comer also sent letters to the heads at the National Archives and Records Administration, Federal Bureau of Investigation and Treasury Department requesting documents on the Biden family’s buisness negotiations domestic and abroad. He also sent letters requesting information regarding the relationship and communication between Eric Schwerin, Edward Prewitt and Georges Bergès, who alledgedly had buisness dealings and management with the Biden family.
The White House shot back, calling the investigation a conspiracy theory.
„Instead of working with President Biden to address issues important to the American people, like lower costs, congressional Republicans‘ top priority is to go after President Biden with politically-motivated attacks chock full of long-debunked conspiracy theories,“ said White House spokesperson Ian Sams. „President Biden is not going to let these political attacks distract him from focusing on Americans‘ priorities, and we hope congressional Republicans will join us in tackling them instead of wasting time and resources on political revenge.
