Rep. James Comer (R-KY), the new House Oversight Committee Chairman who lamented this week that President Joe Biden’s dead son was never prosecuted in a long-settled campaign financing case, has now tried to claim he said no such thing.
on Tuesday, Comer bemoaned that U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware David Weiss, a Trump-era appointee, never indicted Beau Biden in a campaign financing scandal in which Biden was cleared of wrongdoing.Delaware liquor executive Christopher Tigani during the 2000s
, including to Joe Biden’s unsuccessful 2008 presidential campaign. But Beau Biden, the former Delaware attorney general who died of a brain tumor in 2015, recused himself from a state probe into the matter, and an independent special prosecutor found that the Bidens, among other lawmakers, had unknowingly received straw donations. Tigani was eventually convicted.
“This U.S. attorney had had an opportunity to go after the Bidens years ago,” Comer huffed to Dobbs, after insinuating that Weiss was overly sympathetic to the entire Biden family. “In fact, it was Beau Biden, the president’s other son, that was involved in some campaign donations from a person that got indicted, as well as Joe Biden was involved in some of these campaign donations when he was a senator, and then when he ran for president against Obama.
He continued: “But nothing ever happened. So I don’t know much about this U.S. attorney other than he’s had an opportunity to investigate the Bidens before and he chose not to. We all know that he’s just been silent for a long time.
Despite claiming he’s not interested in digging into any Bidens but the president, Comer has obsessed over the president’s other son, Hunter Biden, who has also been in Weiss’ crosshairs since 2018. Weiss is reportedly looking into Hunter Biden’s
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