House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer is focusing on new targets after spending the past two years investigating the Biden family’s “spreading influence” plans..
Comer said in an interview with the Daily Caller News Foundation that the committee will focus on holding federal officials at multiple agencies accountable who are creating obstacles to the committee’s investigation into the Biden family. It was revealed that he would put it down. According to the committee chairman, government officials who could be targeted by the committee this Congress include employees of the FBI, Department of Justice, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
“I want to hold these deep state actors accountable,” Comer said, referring to federal officials who he believes are responsible for covering up crimes by Hunter Biden and other members of the presidential family. . “I mean, who’s to say we’ll never do it again?” (Related: Mike Walz teases ‘consequences’ for former Intel official who signed Hunter Biden’s disinformation letter)
The Kentucky Republican acknowledged that the committee’s focus could be spread across multiple agencies in uncovering cases of deep state actors obstructing the committee’s past investigations, and will continue to do so in the future. Over the years, they have cast a wide net over their surveillance targets.
“We need to hold those involved in the deep state accountable,” Comer reiterated to the DCNF. “They are not the only ones who censored Twitter and Facebook and published a letter from 51 intelligence officials that said: [Hunter Biden] The laptop was Russian disinformation. We need to hold accountable the people who told the IRS whistleblower, “No, I can’t talk to the Bidens anymore.” Stop investigating now. I intend to extinguish the statute of limitations. ”
“We need to hold accountable the people at the Securities and Exchange Commission who went after two of Hunter Biden’s partners, not Hunter Biden’s partners, in the same transaction,” Comer continued. “Some go to prison, some are about to go to prison, and some [Hunter Biden] No questions were even asked. ”
Comer’s extensive investigation into the Biden family’s business dealings was conducted in part through testimony from IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley. Found The FBI confirmed the authenticity of Hunter Biden’s laptop in 2019, nearly a year before Deep State intelligence officials announced it. published A letter claims the contents of Biden’s laptop are “Russian disinformation.” Investigation by the monitoring committee exposure The Biden Justice Department said it has barred an IRS whistleblower from pursuing evidence that could have implicated President Joe Biden.
Comer and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan I wrote In a June 2024 letter to SEC Chairman Gary Gensler, Hunter Biden’s lawyer said the commission’s 2016 federal securities investigation had accused then-Vice President Biden and his son of “media attention.” It alleges that Hunter Biden may have been prevented from participating because he warned the SEC not to collect. .
Comer released In a Friday afternoon video, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for FBI director, Kash Patel, says he looks forward to working with Kash Patel and discusses obstacles the committee faced from the FBI bureau during its investigation into the Biden family. criticized outgoing FBI Director Christopher Wray. .
A word from Chairman Comer:
First committee meeting of the year
new subcommittee
new member
work with president trump
Meeting with Kash Patel pic.twitter.com/Rbih3FGKoB— Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) January 17, 2025
Comer also said the newly created DOGE subcommittee, led by Republican Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, will oversee federal career workers and bring them before the committee for testimony. It also became clear that this is highly possible.
“It’s not going to be a fun experience. [for government bureaucrats]” warns Comer.
Comer acknowledged that the committee’s broader investigation into Hunter Biden and other members of the Biden family likely won’t last until the 119th Congress, but the Kentucky Republican is He is proud of the information he and his team were able to uncover, despite cover-ups by officials.
“The American people have seen the Bidens for who they are,” Comer told DCNF. “We will never see Joe Biden hold political office again, and I’m sure Hunter Biden has no political future either.”
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