First appearance on Fox: House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer plans to pursue banking records of individuals and businesses belonging to Hunter Biden and James Biden as the next step in the House impeachment inquiry into President Biden, Fox News Digital I found out.
Comer, House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, and House Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith, who are leading the formal House impeachment inquiry, briefed House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on the status of the investigation into Biden’s corruption allegations.
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At Thursday morning’s meeting, Comer, R-Ky., outlined the findings of House Republicans’ investigation since July into the president’s family’s alleged involvement in business affairs and the next steps in the investigation.
A source told Fox News Digital that Comer will now track bank records for the personal and business accounts of the president’s son, Hunter, and his brother, James.
Comer will also request transcripts of additional interviews with Hunter Biden business associates, including Eric Schwerin and Rob Walker, the person said.
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The official also told Fox News Digital that the House Oversight Committee may hold hearings related to the investigation in the coming weeks, but witnesses for the scheduled hearings have not yet been determined. Told.
Since July, the committee has been transcribing interviews with Devon Archer, a business associate of Hunter Biden, who said then-Vice President Joe Biden It claimed to be a “brand” that it sold to its business partners. Mr. Archer also testified that Mr. Biden participated in a conference call with Mr. Hunter’s business partners and attended a business dinner in Washington, D.C., with his son’s foreign officials.
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Also this summer, Comer released a third bank memo revealing that the Biden family and their business associates received millions of dollars from oligarchs in Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan during the Obama administration. I made it. These records revealed that the family received more than $20 million from these business arrangements during that period.
Comer also linked information related to the Biden family’s alleged misuse of Air Force 2, as well as all unredacted documents in which Biden used the pseudonym “Robin Ware” to communicate with his son Hunter Biden. We sought information from the National Archives.
Witnesses say Joe Biden spoke with Hunter’s business associates.Republicans see themselves as smoking guns and disrespectful of Democrats.
More broadly, Comer, Jordan and Smith interviewed whistleblowers who allege that politics influenced every prosecutorial decision throughout the Justice Department’s long-running federal investigation into Hunter Biden. These allegations led Attorney General Merrick Garland to appoint special prosecutor authority to David Weiss, the U.S. attorney for Delaware who had been leading the investigation.
Meanwhile, earlier this week, Comer asked Secretary of State Antony Blinken for information about the “abrupt foreign policy decision” made during the Obama administration that led to the firing of Ukraine’s top prosecutor. Brismar Holdings Meanwhile, Hunter Biden was appointed to the company’s board of directors.
The State Department has not yet submitted those records.
The White House insists that President Biden “never did business with his son.”