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WATCH: Fox Host Asks GOPer Why He Didn’t Probe The $640 Million Jared And Ivanka Made While Trump Was POTUS

Ever since Fox News wound up having to shell out $787.5 million to Dominion Voting Systems for lying about the 2020 election, it seems that hosts at the network have been much more willing to question the bullshit that their Republican guests spew.

Case in point, Fox News host Arthel Neville, who asked Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) why the GOP-controlled House doesn’t bother to investigate the hundreds of millions of dollars Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump made while Donald Trump was president.

The discussion began when Burchett noted that he believed the family of President Joe Biden had laundered at least $10 million while Biden was vice president.

“When the Biden family went to mob school, I believe they fell asleep during the money laundering because it is very clear where the money is coming from, the communist Chinese and many of our enemies across this world,” Burchett alleged.

That’s when Neville asked about the Trumps.

“But I do want to mention this, that absolutely, according to the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, on record, Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump made up to $640 million while her father was in office, and they were official advisers to the president,” Neville noted. “If you would explain to our viewers why the Hunter Biden scenario is different.”

Burchett asserted that the earnings of Jared and Ivanka “were not hidden,” adding, “That was business dealings that they were doing, and they are business people. Whether it was, I think that that should be looked at as well.”

Neville: “So if the problem is corruption and compromise, wouldn’t any income of such of that substantial amount be problematic for our country while someone is in office and their family members are receiving those sorts of payments?”

The congressman replied, “I think so. There’s there should be no stone left unturned. But apparently, this is one that they refuse to even look at.”

Don’t hold your breath waiting on Republicans to investigate the many alleged criminal actions of the Trump family while Daddy Don was in office. They don’t plan to. Not now and not ever.

 

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House Oversight Chair Comer Claims He ‘Lost’ Key Witness In His Biden Investigation

According to House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY), his fact-free investigation of President Joe Biden and the Biden family’s “corruption” was going great until the key witness suddenly disappeared.

During an appearance on “Sunday Morning Futures” with Fox host Maria Bartiromo, Comer was asked, “”You have spoken with whistleblowers,” she noted. “You also spoke with an informant who gave you all of this information. Where is that informant today? Where are these whistleblowers?”

Comer: “Well, unfortunately, we can’t track down the informant. We’re hopeful that the informant is still there. The whistleblower knows the informant. The whistleblower is very credible.”

“Hold on a second, Congressman,” Bartiromo said. “Did you just say that the whistleblower or the informant is now missing?”

“Well, we we’re hopeful that we can find the informant,” Comer replied, claiming the informant was in the “spy business” and “they don’t make a habit of being seen a lot.”

Comer then added, “The nine of the ten people that we’ve identified that have very good knowledge with respect to the Bidens, they’re one of three things, Maria, they’re either currently in court, they’re currently in jail, or they’re currently missing.”

Translation: Comer has no witnesses or informants. He made the entire thing up as a way to slag the president in retribution for a real criminal, Donald Trump, being impeached twice and under indictment in Manhattan.

The GOP strategy for attacking the Biden family is simple: They make a lot of noise, throw out a bunch of allegations, and then yell “Squirrel!!” when anyone asks for specifics.

 

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Lauren Boebert Owns Herself By Suggesting She’s Smarter Than Kamala Harris

Colorado Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert is again displaying her own lack of self-awareness and basic intelligence with an attack she made on Vice President Kamala Harris, whom she accused of not being educated.

Commenting on a video she shared on Twitter of the VP making remarks, Boebert wrote, “The same people who will try and knock me for having a GED think this lady represents intelligence and eloquence. Whoever paid for her education wasted their money.”

As Uproxx rightly notes, Boebert’s reported troubles passing the GED are only one reason she’s seen as being one of the most intellectually-challenged members of Congress.

Of course, Boebert misses the point while believing that her GED is why people pile onto her on a regular basis. She has frequently trashed education to the point where she called to abolish the entire education department. And given that she only acquired her GED a mere few months before being elected to Congress, her interest in pursuing it probably had little to do with actual learning. She’s also stepped in on previous occasions by proposing a lot more time for lawmakers to read bills, so there’s that.

This isn’t the first time Boebert has humiliated herself for all the world to see.

When you act perpetually clueless and moronic, you get labeled as such, and it has nothing at all to do with a GED, as Twitter users quickly reminded the doltish Ms. Boebert.

 

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WATCH A Fox Host Tell James Comer His Biden Investigation Is A Sham: ‘You Don’t Have Any Facts’

Fox News host Steve Doocy reminded House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer (R-KY) that while he made headlines with his press conference on Wednesday, he failed to provide any facts that President Joe Biden or members of his family had been engaged in a influence peddling scheme.

Doocy began by telling Comer, “I know the Republicans said that the smoking gun were these financial records that you were able to subpoena and got your hands on. And your party, the Republican investigators, say that that’s proof of influence peddling by Hunter and James [Biden].”

“But that’s just your suggestion, Doocy continued. “You don’t actually have any facts to that point. You’ve got some circumstantial evidence.”

Doocy also noted, “And the other thing is, of all those names, the one person who didn’t profit is that — there’s no evidence that Joe Biden did anything illegally.”

Comer replied, “But make no mistake, Joe Biden was involved. All these countries that the Bidens were receiving money from were countries that Joe Biden was actively visiting in.”

If so, then where’s the evidence? It sure as hell wasn’t presented at the press conference. As usual, Republicans have lies, but they’re missing any facts.

Here’s the video from Fox News:

 

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Grassley Walks Back GOP Accusations That Joe Biden Is Part Of A ‘Criminal Scheme’

48 hours after he suggested that President Joe Biden was part of a “criminal scheme” when he served as vice president in the Obama administration, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) is now walking back those allegations, admitting that he doesn’t know if what he said is true or not.

Speaking with Newsmax host Greta Van Susteren on Friday, Newsweek reports that Grassley said he has absolutely no evidence of what he alleged earlier in the week.

Van Susteren asked Grassley, “The letter is electrifying because it talks about exchange of money for policy decisions. It’s a very serious allegation against the then-vice president.”

Grassley responded, “It is a very serious allegation. I wish I could say that I knew it was true or untrue.”

On Monday, Grassley, along with Rep. James Comer (R-KY), chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, made news by announcing they had sent a letter to FBI Director Chris Wray demanding the agency turn over any information regarding “a criminal scheme involving then-Vice President Joe Biden and a foreign national.”

After Grassley made his comments on Newsmax, a spokesperson for his office would only say that the senator still wants to see the documents he alleges the FBI has:

“Given the precise nature of the information provided by department whistleblowers with a high degree of credibility, we’re confident that the FBI has had these significant allegations for some time now.

“The question is what did the FBI do with that information. That’s what Senator Grassley would like to illuminate.”

Grassley and Comer are on a fishing expedition, looking for dirt on the Biden family so they can try and damage the president’s chances of reelection. If only they’d been this diligent when Donald Trump was in the White House.