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EXCLUSIVE: House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer is requesting President-elect Trump’s Justice Department analyse and prosecute President Biden’s brother, James Biden, for allegedly making mendacious statements to Congress, Fox News Digital has learned.
Fox News Digital exclusively obtained a missive that Comer, R-Ky., sent to Trump’s nominee for lawyer general, Pam Bondi, encouraging the DOJ to "hold James Biden accountable for lying to Congress to support his brother, the soon-to-be-former President Biden."
House Republicans successful June sent transgression referrals for James Biden and Hunter Biden to the Justice Department recommending they beryllium charged with making mendacious statements to Congress astir "key aspects" of the impeachment enquiry of President Biden.
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Specifically, Comer astatine the clip said the alleged mendacious statements implicated President Biden’s "knowledge and relation successful his family’s influence-peddling schemes" and that they appeared "to beryllium a calculated effort to shield Joe Biden from the impeachment inquiry."
Comer, on with House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and Ways & Means Committee Chair Jason Smith, R-Mo., led the impeachment enquiry into President Biden and recovered that helium engaged successful "impeachable conduct," "abused his office" and "defrauded the United States to enrich his family."
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Comer, successful his missive to Bondi this week, pointed to Biden’s "full and unconditional pardon" for his son, Hunter Biden.
"President Biden’s latest strategy to screen his family’s grift cements his bequest arsenic starring the astir corrupt governmental household to attain the presidency successful American history," Comer wrote to Bondi. "But it besides appears incomplete. President Biden has displayed to the American radical that his lad is beyond accountability successful a tribunal of instrumentality for his crimes."
But Comer said helium wanted to "remind incoming Department of Justice enactment of Hunter Biden’s main accomplice successful his power peddling schemes (aside from Joe Biden himself), whom the House Committees connected Oversight, the Judiciary, and Ways and Means antecedently identified to Attorney General Merrick Garland arsenic having misled Congress regarding Joe Biden’s information successful his family’s power peddling and deserving of prosecution nether national law: James Biden, the President’s younger brother."
Comer reminded Bondi that helium and House Republicans referred James Biden to the Justice Department for transgression prosecution, saying the president’s member "made materially mendacious statements to the Oversight and Judiciary Committees."
"The quality of some his and Hunter Biden’s mendacious statements is not mislaid connected the Committees: each lawsuit implicates Joe Biden’s cognition of and relation successful his family’s power peddling," Comer wrote. "James Biden’s denial of Joe Biden’s gathering with James Biden, Hunter Biden, and Hunter Biden’s concern subordinate for a Chinese transaction, Tony Bobulinski — contempt grounds being placed successful beforehand of him and being fixed aggregate opportunities to amend his effect — appears to beryllium a clumsy effort to support Joe Biden from the world that Joe Biden has so met with his family’s concern associates."
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Comer and House Republicans successful June said James Biden "stated unequivocally during his transcribed interrogation that Joe Biden did not conscionable with Mr. Tony Bobulinski, a concern subordinate of James and Hunter Biden, successful 2017 portion pursuing a woody with a Chinese entity, CEFC China Energy."
"Specifically, James Biden stated helium did not be a gathering with Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, and Tony Bobulinski connected May 2, 2017 astatine the Beverly Hilton Hotel," Comer, Jordan and Smith said successful their transgression referral to Attorney General Merrick Garland past year. "These statements were contradicted not lone by Mr. Bobulinski, but Hunter Biden."
They besides noted that Bobulinski "produced substance messages that found the events starring up to and instantly pursuing his gathering with Joe Biden connected May 2, 2017."
In his missive to Bondi, Comer blasted President Biden, claiming helium obstructed the committee’s impeachment enquiry and that successful itself was "impeachable conduct."
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"The bequest President Biden leaves down is having led the astir dishonest and corrupt medication successful American history," Comer wrote.
Biden, past month, made the determination to assistance his lad a "Full and Unconditional Pardon" covering astir 11 years of conduct, including behaviour related to some convictions Special Counsel David Weiss obtained.
Hunter Biden was recovered blameworthy of 3 felony firearm offenses stemming from Weiss’ investigation. The archetypal lad was besides charged with national taxation crimes regarding the nonaccomplishment to wage astatine slightest $1.4 cardinal successful taxes. Before his trial, Hunter Biden entered a astonishment blameworthy plea.
Weiss released his highly anticipated study connected his yearslong probe into Hunter Biden past week and blasted Biden for having "unfairly" maligned Justice Department nationalist servants and casting uncertainty connected the U.S. justness strategy with "wrong" claims that his probe was political.
"President Biden repeatedly told—or utilized White House unit to tell—the American radical helium would not pardon his son. That was a lie," Comer wrote to Bondi. "President Biden continues to lie, present falsely claiming ‘[n]o tenable idiosyncratic who looks astatine the facts of Hunter’s cases tin scope immoderate different decision than Hunter was singled retired lone due to the fact that helium is my lad – and that is wrong.’"
Comer added, "Though President Biden’s saccharine (and wholly ironic) rantings of governmental persecution and weaponized prosecution of Hunter Biden are specious, they are inapplicable to the non-prosecution of his brother, James Biden, who has lied to the United States Congress and has faced nary accountability to date."
"I constitute to promote the Department nether your enactment to clasp James Biden accountable for lying to Congress to support his brother, the soon-to-be-former President Biden," Comer continued. "No 1 should beryllium supra the law, careless of his past name."
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