A new memo to House Oversight Committee Democrats claims that the panel's Republicans have weaponized their investigation in order to distract from former President Donald Trump’s legal woes.
Following the release of the testimony from a former FBI special agent assigned to the Hunter Biden case that corroborated much of the testimony from the two Internal Revenue Service whistleblowers that there was political interference in the criminal investigation of the president's son by the Department of Justice, Oversight Democrats are out with their own memo.
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House Oversight ranking member Jamie Raskin (D-MD) had been calling for Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) to release the transcript since the day they announced it had been conducted back in July.
But when Comer released the transcript on Monday, the day of Trump’s indictment in Georgia, Democrats immediately flipped the script.
“Monday’s release of the SSA’s transcript is the most recent episode in congressional Republicans’ campaign to weaponize Congress and this Committee to do the political bidding of former President Trump as he runs for re-election with the baggage of numerous criminal indictments,” the Democratic memo reads. “Chairman Comer’s release of the SSA’s transcript coincided with growing speculation that Fulton County District Attorney in Georgia, Fani Willis, was expected to present an indictment against the former President related to Mr. Trump’s efforts to subvert the 2020 election, which she did later that day.”
Democrats also pointed out how Comer released the transcript of Devon Archer’s transcribed interview on the day of Trump’s arraignment in Washington, D.C., for his indictment related to crimes he allegedly committed around the time of the 2020 election.
They also accused Comer and other committee Republicans of “deliberate distortion of witness statements in Committee interviews and strategic release of transcripts to try and obscure former President Trump’s growing legal problems.”
Democrats point to the FBI whistleblower’s testimony that said he was unaware of political interference in the Hunter Biden criminal investigation as just one example of Republicans distorting witness testimony.
The FBI whistleblower testified to being blocked from interviewing Hunter Biden. The whistleblower also said that President Joe Biden’s transition team and Hunter Biden’s Secret Service detail were notified ahead of time that the investigators planned to surprise witnesses across the country with simultaneous interviews on Dec. 8, 2020.
“As this memorandum shows, Committee Republicans’ ‘top investigation’ is an investigation of Hunter Biden, and it is not about uncovering the truth — it is about saying whatever needs to be said to boost former President Donald Trump’s 2024 re-election campaign,” the memo reads.
While the committee’s investigation has turned up more information about Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings and how he used his name and proximity to his father to make money, they have yet to prove Joe Biden actually profited or engaged in illegal activity during his time as vice president. While Devon Archer testified that Joe Biden attended multiple dinners with Hunter Biden’s business associates and was on speakerphone with them over 20 times, he also said there was no talk of business during those meetings.
But simply by having his father around and engaging in conversation with business associates, it did have the effect of showing that Hunter Biden had access to his father and further sold them on the idea of the “Biden Brand,” Archer testified.
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A spokesperson for House Oversight Committee Republicans pushed back on the memo, saying it is just the Democrats’ “latest propaganda” and shows they are continuing to act as “Biden family defense lawyers.”
“The Oversight Committee’s investigation has produced concrete evidence through bank records and witness testimony that reveals Joe Biden’s involvement in his family’s corrupt influence peddling schemes,” a statement from the spokesperson says. “We’ve provided the American people with facts but Democrats continue to willfully ignore the growing evidence of the First Family’s corruption.”