House Republicans prepare probe of Biden connections

Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, James Comer, said that House Republicans are set to probe President Joe Biden’s connections to foreign business partners under their new majority. On NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Republican Kentucky Rep. Comer said that the committee, renamed from the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, will hold hearings on “Biden family influence peddling,” and will specifically look into the president’s role in Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings.

Here is what Comer said in that program: “I think any American who’s kept up with the political process over the past two administrations would agree. We need to know what is allowable and what isn’t allowable with respect to foreign adversarial intervention among family members of presidents of the United States.”

Including Chinese, Ukrainian, and Kazakhstani businessmen, Joe Biden has repeatedly appeared on the sidelines of his son’s business meetings. The president said that he has “never spoken” to his son “about his overseas business dealings,” and he kept repeatedly denying that he knows anything about the business dealings, reported Daily Caller.

Communications from the laptop his son abandoned in Delaware in 2019 mention Joe Biden, and Hunter Biden also visited Mexico repeatedly while his father was vice president. The president made a trip to Mexico, while also making this trip for the first time during his presidency.

On “Meet the Press,” Comer said that he will use the communications in the laptop as evidence. Comer said that “there are emails and text messages that show Hunter Biden complaining about having to spend so much money keeping his dad up. I mean, that’s a concern because Hunter Biden’s only source of income [was] from our adversaries in China and Russia for influence peddling.”

“So this is something that we should look into. This isn’t political. We want to know, was the president truthful when he said he ‘didn’t have any knowledge or involvement of his family’s shady business dealings?’ Once we’ve determined that, we’ll move on,” added Comer.

House Republicans will look into “banks and other financial institutions, business partners that were cheated or defrauded by the Bidens” and “will get answers whether they like it or not,” a source close to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy told the New York Post.