Speaking to Newsmax’s Eric Bolling, Kentucky Rep. and Chair of the House Oversight Committee James Comer alleged that there is evidence showing that President Joe Biden was a “central figure” in his family’s alleged misdeeds.
Introducing the subject, Bolling asked Rep. Comer if Biden could be subpoenaed by Congress. He said, “And joining me now Kentucky congressman and House Oversight Chairman, Chairman James Comer. Chairman, good to have you on. I’d like to point out this little banner we have here, ‘Comer invites Biden to testify.’ Can we subpoena the guy?”
Responding, Rep. Comer first explained the subpoena process, explaining that first the potential subject of the subpoena must be invited to testify, saying, “Well, I think if the President could be easily subpoenaed, the Democrats would have had Trump in front of the Oversight Committee four years ago. So what we do is before any subpoenas, we invite people to come for a subpoena to be honored in a court ruling, you have to make every sincere effort to bring people to come by invitation first, then you follow up with the subpoena.”
Continuing, he explained why he thinks neither Hunter nor Joe Biden would want to testify before the House Oversight Committee, saying, “But at the end of the day, Hunter Biden said he wanted a public hearing. And Joe Biden says he’s innocent. So I don’t know why neither one of them would want to come and clear their good name in front of the Oversight Committee.”
Continuing, he explained why he wanted the Bidens to testify before his committee, claiming, “The reason we want them here is three of their former associates have testified that Joe Biden was the central figure in the Biden influence scheme. We know the Bidens were influence peddling, we’ve proven that we’ve proven they’ve gotten nearly $30 million, we’ve proven they had all these LLCs that didn’t serve any purpose. Now, what we found from three of the associates was Joe Biden knew darn well what they were doing, and he was the closer of the deals to sell the Biden brand.”
Bolling then pressed Rep. Comer for more information, asking, “Okay, so let me unpack this a little bit. Chairman. So you said that we the way to do this is offer them the opportunity first. And then the subpoena later? Does that mean, though? If he doesn’t, Biden doesn’t take you up on your offer to speak, to share his thoughts that you will eventually subpoena the President?”
Comer, in response, made his claim about Biden being a “central figure.” He said, “Well, subpoenaing the President of the United States is pretty difficult. We’ve looked into that, that option, certainly on the table. It’s a lot more attainable with his son. But we will say, you know, first of all, I am the eternal optimist. I hope that Joe Biden would, if he wouldn’t come before the committee, then perhaps he would sit down for an interview, or perhaps at the very least, Eric, he would submit answers to some questions that we’ve sent him. We’re trying to make this as easy as possible for Joe Biden, but at the end of the day, this is an impeachment inquiry, we’ve proven that the family committed many financial crimes. Now we have three witnesses that testified that Joe Biden not only has been dishonest with the American people about his involvement in his family’s crimes, that he was a central figure.”
Comer reiterated that claim later on, saying, “They’ve been the least transparent administration in history. Though. The rules don’t apply to them. They’re above the law. We have proven this family. It has committed many crimes. And we’re about to see in real time, all the crimes, the families committed what Hunter Biden’s in court for now is the tip of the iceberg. But at the end of the day, this has never been an investigation about the president’s son or brother . . . And what the media the mainstream media fails to acknowledge is that three of the former Biden associates have now testified that Joe Biden was the central figure in this influence peddling team, and I don’t think the average American is okay with the, with the president’s family, peddling access to our enemies around the world to the tune of 10s of millions of dollars. Now we’re at the point of accountability. Now, accountability, whether that be impeachment, whether that be criminal referrals, or whether that be both. Now we need to hear from Joe Biden, and we have made every sincere effort and I’m saying this for the quarter, we have made every sincere effort to work with Joe Biden.”
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