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Tucked inside a memo released by House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) on Wednesday is one of the clearest signs yet that a potential House GOP impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden is coming this fall.
“President Biden’s Family is the Vehicle to Receive Bribery Payments,” Oversight Republicans asserted on the third page of the memo, which detailed “over $20 million” in payments from foreign oligarchs to shell companies controlled by Hunter Biden and his business associates.
It’s a stunning claim for Comer to make, and it isn’t backed up by evidence of any bribe given to Joe Biden — at least none seen so far. Yet the repeated allegations by Comer against Biden show the direction House Republicans are moving in on an impeachment inquiry.
Up to this point, Republicans haven’t tied any official actions by Biden as vice president to the money received by Hunter Biden, other family members or their business associates. The Republicans’ basic thrust is that there has to be corruption or something illegal going on because it all seems so sordid.
Here’s Comer to us on July 25 when pressed on whether the president was corrupt:
Q: “You have no proof of corruption by Biden. Hunter Biden clearly, he’s pleading guilty to crimes. You have no proof by Joe Biden of any corruption.”
Comer: “We suspect he took a bribe. We suspect that.”
Q: “You have an allegation.”
Comer: “Ok, we’re investigating that allegation.”
Comer now asserts that it isn’t necessary to find a payment directly to Biden, even though the June 2020 FBI internal document that Comer subpoenaed alleges a $5 million payment to the then vice president by an official with the Ukrainian gas company Burisma. Hunter Biden was on the board of that company. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) publicly released the FBI document last month.
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