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House Democrats celebrated when they were given access to former President Donald Trump’s tax returns, but they are not going to be too thrilled about how the Republicans played the same game.
House Republicans have access to President Joe Biden’s banking documents which may include transactions from his son Hunter Biden. House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer made the announcement when he spoke on Fox News.
A whistleblower reportedly provided evidence alleging Biden was involved in corrupt ‘pay-for-play’ schemes as vice president. The source has been frequently used by the FBI since the Obama administration and is deemed to be “highly credible.”
Below is a transcript:
KUDLOW: “I know you have additional things to talk about, but one point that is so interesting to me — interesting, quote-unquote — is that Burisma wanted to come into the U.S. energy business one way or another, and this prosecutor in Ukraine was standing in the way. So what do they do? They go after flat-out bribery to the Bidens who were in power at the time as vice president. I mean, to me, that rings so clearly. There’s the motive here which, thanks to Brooke’s reporting, I hadn’t heard before.”
COMER: “Yeah. What the motive was, Larry, was they were wanting to enter into the U.S. energy market through an IPO, and they felt like they couldn’t conduct an initial public offering if they were under investigation for corruption in Ukraine. So that’s what it all pertained to. That’s where the supposed bribe happened. That’s why it happened. Because they wanted to get rid of the prosecutor and try to clear up their name and have a Biden on the board so that they could do an initial public offering to try to show credibility as they — as they tried to expand the market. They also wanted to buy an existing energy company, and I believe it was in Texas but I don’t know the name of the company. So that was their whole business model, that to get their foot in the door, buy a company and do an IPO.”
COMER: “They have a history of corruption and, you know, if you look at the countries where we’re investigating the Biden family for taking money from foreign nationals, they all fit a pattern of countries with a history of corruption and a history of bribery.”
KUDLOW: “The FBI story is untenable, absolutely untenable. Wray should be fired or he should resign. Actually, the top five or six layers should resign, which is what I think Donald Trump, maybe other candidates will do if a Republican is elected. Mr. Chairman, let me just ask you this. As your trail, you’re hot on the trail, as this trail gets hotter and hotter and the bribery scandal grows and the evidence points to it, does this not constitute an impeachable offense for President Biden?”
COMER: “If we can trace bribery, it sure does. But look what we’ve already found, Larry. The Biden family has at least 20 shell companies that were created for the sole purpose to launder money to at least nine Biden family members. When you create a bunch of shell companies for the sole purpose of laundering money, that’s called racketeering. And the money laundering, those aren’t my words, those are the words of at least six big publicly-traded banks that filed bank violations against the Biden family. They said it sure appears that they’re money-laundering. So these are some serious crimes that we’ve already uncovered, but there are still many more banks to go and many more shell companies that I think we’ll discover along the way.”
WATCH:
Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley shared explosive news on Monday by saying the Burisma executive who allegedly paid then-Vice President Joe Biden and Hunter Biden kept 17 audio recordings of his conversations with them as an “insurance policy.”
During an interview on “Sunday Night in America,” Comer and host Trey Gowdy discussed the ongoing House Republican investigation into Biden and his family’s alleged business dealings. Comer said the FBI told him that Biden is “currently under investigation for bribery.”
Comer spoke about the unclassified FD-1023 FBI form alleging that then-Vice President Joe Biden was involved in a bribery pay-to-play scheme. Comer said FBI Director Christopher Wray “finally” admitted to the existence of that form after Comer and Sen. Chuck Grassley said they read the document, reportedly sourced from a whistleblower.
A whistleblower reportedly provided evidence alleging Biden was involved in corrupt ‘pay-for-play’ schemes as vice president. The source has been frequently used by the FBI since the Obama administration and is deemed to be “highly credible.”
