House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) told Fox News host Maria Bartiromo on Sunday that his GOP-led panel finally has enough information to claim that President Joe Biden and members of his family are corrupt.
That includes the most recent discovery of a $40,000 check given to Joe Biden after son Hunter Biden threatened a Chinese businessman.
“We traced the $40,000 check that Joe Biden received all the way back to that WhatsApp message where Hunter Biden claimed his father was sitting beside him where he was shaking down the Chinese operative. That’s where that $40,000 was triggered,” Comer, a former bank executive, told Bartiromo.
“We — just a few weeks after that text message, that $40,000 landed in Joe Biden’s pocket after the Bidens laundered it. But that money came from China, further evidence that Joe Biden benefited from his family’s influence-peddling scheme,” he said.
Bartiromo then said: “Well, you have now released a lot of evidence with regard to this situation, whether it be witness testimony, 176 suspicious activity reports, now these checks going directly to Joe Biden. He says he never discussed business with his son, was never in business with his son. Are you planning on calling them in and getting subpoenas out?”
Comer noted that’s been the plan from the outset, adding that the process has been slow because of federal agency stonewalling.
“Absolutely. We have always planned on doing that. This has been a painful process, Maria. We have been obstructed, we have been fought at every turn, not just by the Bidens’ big-money attorneys but also by the federal government. The IRS has obstructed. The DOJ has obstructed. The Treasury has obstructed. FBI has obstructed,” he said.
“And the Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have pretty much been the Biden legal defense team. But, through it all, we have followed the money. We have done this the right way. We have subpoenaed bank accounts. And now we have enough bank accounts, Maria, where we can actually trace the money,” he continued.
“We can connect the dots because, as you showed on the screen, with this series of transactions, that’s called money laundering,” Comer noted. “And this was a very organized criminal enterprise by the Biden family. This wasn’t just some drug addict doing concoctions and making wild transactions. This was very organized.
“And the reason they did these complicated transactions was to disguise the source of the revenue and to deceive the IRS from paying taxes. So what you’re going to see in the coming weeks is a lot of loans. Any time the Bidens have money, they’re going to claim it was a loan because you don’t have to report loans on your taxes,” the Kentucky Republican said.
