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Rep. Jamie Raskin, Rep. James Comer, chairman of the House Oversight Committee and Rep. Jason Smith, during the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on September 28, 2023.
House Speaker James Comer told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Friday that he believes in a special counsel. David Weiss Hunter Biden sued to protect him from his arraignment next week before Comer’s committee.
“My concern is that Weiss may have sued Biden to prevent him from being removed from the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday,” Comer said on CNN’s “The Lead with Jake Tapper. ”
Comer then went further, arguing that Weiss’ entire criminal investigation — which has indicted Biden in two states and could send him to prison for more than 40 years — “has a cover.”
The Kentucky Republican characterized the most federal charges brought against Biden so far, related to the purchase of firearms in 2018 and a scheme of tax evasion, as “minimal.”
“Look at what he’s done,” Comer said. “Everybody in America will be in jail.”
In the interview, Comer Hunter Biden repeatedly said that he is guilty of illegal foreign influence and “influence abuse” involving his father. Hunter Biden was not charged with criminal defamation and there is nothing in the indictments to support the GOP claim that Joe Biden was involved in his son’s business dealings.
Comer’s comments came after he asked Hunter Biden to stand up for closing the door on December 13. Biden’s lawyer, Abbe Lowell, told Congress that his partner was only willing to stand up for a public hearing. If Biden doesn’t show up Wednesday, Comer said he will hold the president’s son in contempt of Congress for avoiding his claim, taking the standoff to a breaking point.
The criminal case against the president’s son was close to ending in July, but a proposed settlement was scrapped after a federal judge’s investigation and legal disputes in the between the two sides.
New tax returns stemming from Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings — including his involvement in Ukrainian energy firm Burisma and a Chinese hedge fund — are at the center of an investigation by House Republicans. Joe Biden.