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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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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.

 

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MT Greene Calls Biden A Criminal ‘Mastermind’ – After Declaring Him ‘Mentally Incompetent’

Georgia Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene can’t seem to decide if President Joe Biden is a brilliant “mastermind” of a vast criminal enterprise or “mentally incompetent,” using both descriptions of the president in separate attacks.

Greene used the “mastermind” title for Biden during an appearance on The Kimberly Guilfoyle Show, remarking, “But the true crimes are linked to Joe Biden himself, and he is the mastermind of the Biden criminal enterprise.”

“Are we involved in the Ukraine war because of the dirty secrets that [Ukraine President Volodymyr] Zelensky and Ukraine holds on Joe Biden and his family?” she asked. “Are we on the brink of a nuclear holocaust because of this corruption and these crimes that Joe Biden has committed against the American people?”

“And I do believe that it’s our responsibility and our duty as Republicans in Congress to lead the impeachment and impeach Joe Biden in the House of Representatives,” Greene added.

And yet, in September of last year, Greene declared that Biden was “frail, weak, and dementia-ridden.”

Also, following the president’s 2023 State of the Union Address in March, the Georgia Republican slammed the president as “mentally incompetent, feckless, dementia-ridden piece of crap.”

So which one is it, Margie? Is the president a mastermind or is he too mentally incompetent to know where he is?

Business Insider provided Greene with this reminder:

Someone, please tell Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene that President Joe Biden can’t be mentally sound enough to run an international cabal of insidious elites while also being completely senile. 

Marge, if you want to see actual incompetence, all you have to do is look in a mirror.

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Jamie Raskin: GOP’s Bogus Claims Of A Biden Bribery Scandal Can Be Traced To Giuliani And Russia

On Wednesday, Republicans on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee made an announcement that they had been made aware of information being held by the FBI that allegedly proves President Joe Biden has been involved in a bribery scandal that supposedly took place while he was serving as vice president in the Obama administration.

CBS News reports that the allegation came from House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer (KY) and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA).

In their letter to (FBI Director Chris) Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland, Grassley and Comer said that it had come to their attention that “the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) possess an unclassified FD-1023 form that describes an alleged criminal scheme involving then-Vice President Biden and a foreign national relating to the exchange of money for policy decisions.”

“It has been alleged that the document includes a precise description of how the alleged criminal scheme was employed as well as its purpose,” their letter said. 

The White House immediately responded to announcement from Grassley and Comer, with Ian Sams, the White House spokesperson for oversight and investigations, noting:

“For going on five years now, Republicans in Congress have been lobbing unfounded, unproven, politically-motivated attacks against the President and his family without offering evidence for their claims or evidence of decisions influenced by anything other than U.S. interests.”

“When it comes to President Biden’s personal finances, anybody can take a look: he has offered an unprecedented level of transparency, releasing a total of 25 years of tax returns to the American public.”

And now Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, is suggesting that the latest attempt by Republicans to create a scandal is actually part of a Russian campaign to discredit President Biden, explaining in a statement:

“Committee Republicans are recycling unsubstantiated claims floated by Senate Republicans by issuing a subpoena to the FBI to require the release of a June 2020 tip from an unknown informant.  During this same time period, Rudy Giuliani and Russian agents, sanctioned by Trump’s Treasury Department, were peddling disinformation aimed at interfering in the 2020 presidential election.  Given Chair Comer’s commitment to ‘dismantle’ the FBI, it’s no surprise that he would rely on these unverified tips to attack President Biden in one more baseless partisan stunt.”

In the weeks ahead, you can expect to hear more from Comer and other Republicans about this nonexistent scandal they’ve created out of thin air. They have nothing, but it won’t keep them from peddling lies to their constituents for the purpose of slagging Biden and trying to raise money off it.