Fox Calls Out Rep. Comer On Lack Of Evidence Linking Biden To Claims - Rolling Stone
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Via: jbb • 2 years ago • 16 commentsBy: Nikki McCann Ramirez (Rolling Stone)
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Fox's Steve Doocy took Oversight Committee Chair James Comer to task over a lack of evidence linking Biden to his relatives' financial dealings
By Nikki McCann Ramirez
House Republicans have been promising to expose President Joe Biden's supposedly criminal business dealings with foreign entities for months. But the biggest takeaway from Oversight Committee Chair James Comer's (R-Ky.) much-hyped press conference on Wednesday revealing the GOP's "findings" was just the opposite — they don't have the goods.
What Republicans presented on "judgment day" was a memo outlining more than $10 million in payments received by members of the Biden family from foreign businesses between 2015-2017. But the findings lacked a crucial detail — concrete evidence linking Biden to the dealings of his family members. The omission was so stark that even the president's most fervent critics at Fox felt the need to confront Comer on the nothingness of the burger.
"Your party, the Republican investigators, say that that's proof of influence peddling by Hunter and James [Biden], but that's just your suggestion. You don't actually have any facts to that point. You've got some circumstantial evidence," said Fox host Steve Doocey in an interview with Comer on Thursday.
"Of all those names, the one person who didn't profit — there's no evidence that Joe Biden did anything illegally."
Wow! Steve Doocy to James Comer this morning: "You don't actually have any facts to that point. You've got some circumstantial evidence. And the other thing is, of all those names, the one person who didn't profit — there's no evidence that Joe Biden did anything illegally." pic.twitter.com/Ad8L3NSXWE
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 11, 2023
Comer defended himself by arguing that Biden's family members had taken steps to conceal the president's involvement in his family's financial dealings, but conceded that Republicans are in the "beginning stages" of the now five-year investigation and "still looking for more bank records that we believe will implicate Joe Biden's active participation in this."
Less than an hour after his exchange with Doocy, Comer told Fox Business' Maria Bartiromo that he and Oversight Republicans were "gonna move forward with plan B."
"What's plan B?" Bartiromo asked.
Comer did not have an answer. "Stay tuned Maria, you'll be the first person that'll know," he quipped.
In a statement to Rolling Stone, Oversight Committee Rep. Jimmy Gomez stated his belief that Republicans on the committee have brought the criticism upon themselves. "Chairman Comer has made wild accusations about the President, but after totally failing to deliver any proof to back up his false claims, even the Republican base is calling out his unsubstantiated allegations and empty investigation," he said. Gomez added that Republicans have "proven they have zero credibility."
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Accountability, echoed these sentiments in a statement released Wednesday. "Once again Chairman Comer has failed to provide factual evidence to support his wild accusations about the President," he wrote. "He continues to bombard the public with innuendo, misrepresentations, and outright lies, recycling baseless claims from stories that were debunked years ago."
With zero evidence that President or Mrs Biden did anything wrong or personally profited from any illicit activity the gop has only accusations! Baseless lame unfounded made up bullshit accusations!
The Biden's taxes are public going back 20 years! Every dollar of their incomes was accounted for.
Even Fox News won't buy what Comer is selling!
We aren't supposed to see Trump's indictments.
Butt, we do MAGA. We see you and Trump lying!
Sounds like another IRS or Benghazi ''investigation'' by the Ohio dufus.
This New McCarthy Era is exactly as horrid as the Original McCarthy Era, because there are zero degrees of separation between them!
Cohen was not a handsome specimen.
Olde Joe McCarthy's number one henchman, the mob lawyer and Worst Person in the World Roy Cohn, had three special proteges, his personal butt boys, that he took under his evil wings to mentor and nurture. They were Roger Stone, Paul Manafort and Donald Trump. The MAGA Trifecta of Corruption in Politics!
Plan B? Sounds like the same reduxed plan promising the faithful that would bring down the Clintons ... needs a tune:
At long last, the gop still has no decency?
Is possible that Rep. Comer has the TDS Syndrome so badly that the corruption he sees emanating from the criminal Trump Enterprise Syndicate, the TDS acts as a reflective mirror and shows him only that which isn't. Then again, he is from Kentucky and a Russian oligarch or two have some investments in there somewhere although no one has been able to pinpoint where and to whom it ended up. Allegedly of course.
Biden will have been re-elected and served his entire second term before they get off the starting block.