Five months after Home Republicans launched an investigation into President Biden’s son Hunter and different members of his household, they’ve thus far didn’t establish any enterprise dealings which will have influenced his selections as Vice President or President.
However Rep. James Comer, the Kentucky Republican who chairs the Home Oversight Committee, mentioned on Monday that his committee’s public airing of abroad enterprise transactions by Hunter Biden and different Biden family was serving to Donald Trump’s presidential marketing campaign. Throughout an interview on Fox Information, Comer linked the Republicans’ investigation into Joe Biden’s family to Donald Trump’s ballot numbers.
A Fox Information anchor requested Comer, “do you assume that due to your investigation, that’s what’s moved this needle with the media?”
“Completely. Completely, there’s no query. You take a look at the polling, and proper now Donald Trump is seven factors forward of Joe Biden and trending upward, Joe Biden’s trending downward,” Comer mentioned. “And I imagine that the media is trying round, scratching their head, and so they’re realizing the American individuals are maintaining with our investigation. And so they understand there’s one thing flawed right here. It’s not regular for the President of the US’ kids and grandchildren and in-laws and nieces and nephews to obtain wires from international nationals. That’s what we’ve confirmed.”
Comer gave the impression to be referring to a latest ABC-Washington Put up ballot from early Might that confirmed Trump beating Biden in a head-to-head matchup. Some polling consultants have criticized the survey, saying the pattern measurement was too small and the strategies imperfect. Most polls present a possible race between Trump and Biden in 2024 being too near name.
“It’s wonderful to me that the Chairman of the Oversight Committee brazenly measures the progress of his work by Donald Trump’s ballot numbers,” mentioned the highest Democrat on the Home Oversight Committee, Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, who added that Comer’s “remark tells the world that these wild-goose-chase probes are all about one factor: serving to Donald Trump claw his means again into the White Home.”
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Raskin accused Comer of utilizing the Biden investigation for political acquire whereas failing to “honor his public dedication to research former President Trump for his blatant profit-taking and conflicts of curiosity throughout his time in workplace and Jared Kushner for profiting off his former place as a senior White Home advisor to the tune of billions of {dollars} pocketed from the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia and different international autocrats.”
Final 12 months, as Comer was making ready to take the gavel of the Home Oversight Committee, he informed TIME that Republicans had been “not investigating Hunter Biden for political causes,” and had been making ready to look at his enterprise dealings particularly to see if he posed a nationwide safety menace or compromised his father.
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