Comer demands Trump DOJ prosecute James Biden for making ‘false statements’ during impeachment probe
EXCLUSIVE: House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer is demanding that President-elect Trump’s Justice Department investigate and prosecute President Biden’s brother, James Bidenfor allegedly making false statements to Congress, Fox News Digital has learned.
Fox News Digital has exclusively obtained a letter Comer, R-Ky., sent to Trump’s attorney general nominee, Pam Bondi, urging the DOJ to “hold James Biden accountable for lying to Congress to protect his brother, future-former President Biden.”
House Republicans in June sent criminal charges against James Biden and Hunter Biden to the Justice Department recommending that they be charged with making false statements to Congress about “key aspects” of the impeachment inquiry into President Biden.
James Biden, brother of President Biden, arrives to testify before the Oversight and Judiciary Committees regarding the impeachment inquiry into President Biden in Washington, DC on February 21, 2024. (Jim Watson)
Specifically, Comer said at the time that the alleged false statements implicate President Biden’s “knowledge and role in his family’s influence peddling schemes” and appeared to be “a calculated attempt to shield Joe Biden from the impeachment investigation.”
Comer, along with House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith, R-Mo., led the impeachment inquiry into President Biden and found that he engaged in “conduct that impeachable,” “abused his office” and “defrauded the United States to enrich his family.”
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In his letter to Bondi this week, Comer pointed to Biden’s “full and unconditional pardon” for his son Hunter Biden.
“President Biden’s latest scheme to cover up his family’s fraud cements his legacy as the leader of the most corrupt political family to rise to the presidency in American history,” Comer wrote to Bondi. “But it also feels incomplete. President Biden has shown the American people that his son is beyond accountability for his crimes.”
But Comer said he wanted to “remind future Justice Department leadership of Hunter Biden’s chief accomplice in his influence-peddling schemes (besides Joe Biden himself), whom the House Oversight, Judiciary and Ways and Means committees previously identified to Attorney General Merrick Garland because misled Congress about Joe Biden’s involvement in his family’s influence peddling and deserves prosecution under federal law: James Biden, the president’s younger brother.”
Tail. James Comer, R-Ky. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite/File)
Comer reminded Bondi that he and House Republicans have referred James Biden to the Justice Department for prosecution, saying the president’s brother “made materially false statements to the Oversight and Judiciary Committees.”
“The committees have not forgotten the nature of his and Hunter Biden’s false statements: each case implicates Joe Biden’s knowledge and role in his family’s influence peddling,” Comer wrote. “James Biden’s denial of Joe Biden’s meeting with James Biden, Hunter Biden, and Hunter Biden’s business associate on the China transaction, Tony Bobulinski — despite being presented with evidence and given multiple opportunities to change his answer — appears to be a clumsy attempt to protect Joe Biden from the reality that Joe Biden did indeed meet with his family’s business associates.”
James and Joe Biden (AP | Getty Images)
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Comer and House Republicans said in June that James Biden “stated unequivocally during his transcribed interview that Joe Biden did not meet with Mr. Tony Bobulinski, a business associate of James and Hunter Biden, in 2017 while on business with a Chinese entity, CEFC Chinese energy.”
“Specifically, James Biden stated that he did not attend a meeting with Joe Biden, Hunter Biden and Tony Bobulinski on May 2, 2017 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel,” Comer, Jordan and Smith said in their last criminal complaint to Attorney General Merrick Garland. year. “These statements were contradicted not only by Mr. Bobulinski, but also by Hunter Biden.”
They also noted that Bobulinski “produced text messages establishing events leading up to and immediately following his meeting with Joe Biden on May 2, 2017.”
In his letter to Bondi, Comer criticized President Biden, arguing that he obstructed the committee’s impeachment inquiry and that that itself was “impeachable conduct.”
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“President Biden’s legacy is that of running the most dishonest and corrupt administration in American history,” Comer wrote.
Biden made the decision last month to grant his son a “full and unconditional pardon” covering nearly 11 years of conduct, including conduct related to both convictions handed down by special counsel David Weiss.
Hunter Biden leaves the federal courthouse, June 3, 2024, in Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
Hunter Biden was found guilty of three firearms offenses stemming from the Weiss investigation. The first son is also charged with federal tax crimes in connection with the failure to pay at least $1.4 million in taxes. Before the trial, Hunter Biden suddenly pleaded guilty.
Weiss last week released his long-awaited report on his years-long investigation into Hunter Biden and accused Biden of “unfairly” smearing public officials at the Justice Department and casting doubt on the US justice system with “false” claims that his investigation was political.
“President Biden repeatedly told — or used White House staff to tell — the American people that he would not pardon his son. That was a lie,” wrote Comer Bondi. “President Biden continues to lie, now falsely claiming ‘[n]o a reasonable person looking at the facts of Hunter’s cases could come to any conclusion other than that Hunter was singled out simply because he’s my son – and that’s wrong.'”
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Comer added: “While President Biden’s saccharine (and completely ironic) words about the political persecution and prosecution of Hunter Biden are false, they are inapplicable to the non-prosecution of his brother, James Biden, who lied to the United States Congress and has not been held accountable to this day.”
“I am writing to urge the Department under your leadership to hold James Biden accountable for lying to Congress to protect his brother, soon-to-be former President Biden,” Comer continued. No one should be above the law, regardless of their surname.
