House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) says his committee will soon move to subpoena members of the Biden family, and potentially the President himself.
Comer’s subpoena tease comes a day after his committee released a third staff memo outlining millions of dollars in foreign funds paid to Hunter Biden and his former associates while Joe Biden was vice president.
“This is always going to end with the Bidens coming in front of the committee. We are going to subpoena the family,” Comer said on Fox Business on Thursday.
“We know that this is going to end up in court when we subpoena the Bidens. So we’re putting together a case, and I think we’ve done that very well. We’ve shown the bank records,” Comer said. “If I had subpoenaed Joe and Hunter Biden the first day I became chairman of the committee, it would have been tied up in court and the judge would have eventually thrown it out … We have put together a case that I think would stand up in any court of law in America.”
Comer acknowledged that it would be an uphill battle to get information from the president through subpoenas, citing the years-long legal battles that ensued after congressional Democrats subpoenaed former President Trump’s financial records.
“We want to talk to about three or four more associates first,” Comer said. “We’ve been communicating with a couple of them. We’re trying to bring them in just like we did [former Hunter Biden business partner] Devon Archer for a transcribed interview. If they don’t come in voluntarily, then they’ll be subpoenaed.”
In response to the Oversight chairman’s subpoena threats the White House pointed to a release it sent on Wednesday following the Oversight Committee GOP staff memo.
“Comer and his fellow extreme Republicans in Congress are now admitting they haven’t uncovered any proof of involvement or wrongdoing by President Biden. They simply will continue to spread innuendo and lies as they pursue a baseless impeachment stunt to attack the president,” said Ian Sams, White House spokesperson for oversight and investigations, pointing to a portion of the memo in which Republicans argued they do not have to show direct payments to President Biden in order to demonstrate corruption.
“House Republicans can’t prove President Biden did anything wrong, but they are proving every day they have no vision and no agenda to actually help the American people,” Sams said. “For them, it’s all about partisan games and political attacks that serve themselves and get themselves attention on rightwing media – not about taking on the big challenges facing our country.”
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I don’t want Biden impeached…..I want him indicted…prosecuted….and thrown in jail. How can they say there is no evidence tying him to Hunter’s business deals when he is smuggly talking…on tape…as to how he was going to withhold money (which was not his, of course)if the prosecuter Shokin wasn’t fired for investigating the company…Burisma… that Hunter Biden was involved with…….he and his sleazy son need to be held accountable….no wonder Biden said “he’s the smartest man I know”…..they have spent their whole lives “grifting”…..and getting away with it….so maybe it’s time…better late than never….for the rest of us to smarten up…..
No no no arrest biden his administration family Now immediately