House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer ridiculed an explanation from the White House regarding a claim that President Joe Biden gave son Hunter Biden monthly payments for a truck as “bull crap.”
In an interview with Newsmax TV, the Kentucky Republican also laid out payments from a bank account belonging to a Hunter-run company that was one of many “shell” firms allegedly used to hide payments made to the family and then then-vice president from Chinese government-linked business entities.
“This is money directly to Joe Biden from one of these shell companies… This is the one that received the most suspicious activity reports from the banks… This is what the media said we had to have,” Comer told host Robb Schmitt. “This is what Jean Pierre said didn’t exist; she said ‘Joe Biden was never in business with his son. He never received any money from his son.’ Joe Biden said, ‘Show me the money.’ Here’s more evidence of more money going directly to Joe Biden.”
The host then put up a graphic of a tweet from left-wing MSNBC political analyst and Mother Jones DC Bureau Chief David Corn, who claimed that payments from Joe to Hunter were for a pickup truck.
Stop lying and misleading the public. Hunter was paying back his dad for a truck payment. Get back to us when you have something real. https://t.co/dwW8sNt3YT
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) December 4, 2023
“That’s bull crap,” Comer said in response to Corn’s tweet. “If he wanted to send money to his son for a truck, send him money for a truck. But he got paid back from China, so it doesn’t matter whether all this money we’re showing… was a loan or not, which it wasn’t.
“But let’s say because the media says it is, it was a loan. He got paid back from the influence-peddling scheme. So we’ve now pointed out a quarter of a million dollars that Joe Biden received directly from his family’s influence-peddling scheme,” Comer continued.
Later he added: “You can loan people money. If they pay you back, then you benefit directly from the influence-peddling scheme. He could have loaned $250,000 and never been paid back, then he would have lost $250,000. But because he was paid back, and we traced the cash, it came directly from the influence-peddling scheme. This is what the media dared us for months and months to prove!”
“This story doesn’t make sense and the Washington Post and other media outlets should be ashamed for the way they’re covering this story,” he said.
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