Even Fox News Pans Republican Investigations Into the Biden Family!

 

James R. Comer, the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, stands behind a lectern and speaks alongside the Republican members of the committee.

Republicans on the House Oversight Committee released their first report on an investigation into President Biden and his family. Credit…Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times

Dear Commons Community,

Republicans on the House Oversight Committee released new details this week about business dealings by President Biden’s brother James and son Hunter during his vice presidency. Republicans say the records provide “indications of influence peddling” by Biden’s relatives.

The Biden White House said the report is “nothing more than innuendo and insinuation.”

The report says that James and Hunter Biden were paid over $10 million by companies associated with foreign countries or governments when Joe Biden was vice president. It does not provide proof of decisions made by the then vice president that were influenced by his relatives.

The Republican report says Biden’s brother and son engaged in “many intentionally complicated financial transactions to hide these payments and avoid scrutiny” and set up “over 20 companies” to shield themselves. In an appearance this week on Fox News, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, a Kentucky Republican, said that James and Hunter Biden also sought to avoid paying taxes.

Hunter Biden is under investigation by federal law enforcement as to whether he has failed to pay taxes, according to multiple news reports.

The Biden White House is responding by pointing to what Fox News itself is saying about the report. On Thursday morning, network host Steve Doocy responded to Comer’s claims of “influence peddling” by the Biden relatives.

“That’s just your suggestion. You don’t actually have any facts to that point. You’ve got some circumstantial evidence,” Doocy told Comer. “And the other thing is, of all those names, the one person who didn’t profit — there’s no evidence that Joe Biden did anything illegally.”

Doocy wasn’t the only Fox News personality to skewer Comer’s investigation. His Fox News colleague Geraldo Rivera wrote Wednesday that the committee’s “angry allegations are vague and general and do not point to specific crimes.”

What a waste of taxpayer money!

Tony

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