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.”