A top House Republican is calling for another probe into the U.S. Secret Service for what he calls the agency’s “bizarre” behavior involving first son Hunter Biden.
Specifically, House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer of Kentucky wants answers regarding the Secret Service’s reported involvement in an investigation involving Hunter and a handgun, as well as other incidents.
“Comer, the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, joined ‘Fox & Friends First’ to discuss a new report on a trove of emails that raise questions about the Secret Service’s role in a 2018 incident involving Hunter Biden’s handgun,” Fox News reported Monday.
Comer said:
There are numerous instances where the Secret Service came and tried to bail Hunter out when he was in a jam, when he was in California and getting in all kinds of trouble, getting kicked out of a very exclusive hotel there.
The Secret Service showed up to try to see if there was some way they could get him back to Delaware to his family to protect him. And then with this gun application, there’s reports that the Secret Service went and visited the gun dealer and wanted a copy of the application. And I don’t believe the gun dealer gave the Secret Service a copy of that application, but regardless of the fact at that point in time, Joe Biden did not have Secret Service protection.
Joe Biden received Secret Service protection six months after he left the vice presidency and at the point when he declared for president.
So there was about a two-and-a-half-year period there where the American people weren’t providing Secret Service protection for the Bidens, yet there are numerous instances where the Secret Service always showed up to try to help Hunter Biden. It’s bizarre.
And this is another set of questions that Joe Biden needs to come forward and be transparent, not just with the American people, but especially with the House Oversight Committee, because we have a major investigation here and the Secret Service should now [be] a part of it.
WATCH:
After Republicans took control of the House following the November midterms, Just the News reported that the party, angered by Democrats who successfully managed to convince federal courts to give them access to former President Donald Trump’s tax records, will be using a similar legal argument and strategy to obtain financial records from Hunter Biden, in the hopes of finding direct links from his business deals to his father, President Joe Biden, who is allegedly “the big guy” in emails and texts discovered on a laptop Hunter abandoned at a computer repair shop in 2019.
According to the outlet, Comer planned to be “fighting the Biden administration for access to some 150 Suspicious Activity Reports (SAR) filed by banks concerning Hunter Biden’s financial transactions would allow investigators to determine to what extent, if any, Joe Biden benefited from his son’s foreign influence peddling.”
“This isn’t a fishing expedition,” Comer told the John Solomon Reports podcast earlier in the week. “We have every reason to believe that Hunter Biden was paying for living expenses for Joe Biden, a significant amount of living expenses. And we want to verify that.”
Comer added that Republicans will be following the Democratic playbook.
“The Democrats have set a precedent on this,” he explained. “They filed suit forcing former President Trump to have to turn over his tax records. So the Democrats have already set a precedent for bank records and tax records.”
Comer noted further that he expects a fight from the Biden regime, which is now claiming that SARs are exempt from congressional oversight.
“When the White House will inevitably say, ‘Well, Joe Biden wasn’t benefiting from Hunter’s shady business dealings,’ there’s gonna be a little ‘Wait a minute now, who was paying for this, and who was paying for that? How did the President afford this? Who paid for that?’” he explained. “And that’s why we need the bank records.”
