Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) has as soon as once more flopped in his newest try to hyperlink President Joe Biden to purported enterprise dealings with overseas entities.
On Monday, the Home Oversight Committee announced that Comer had launched subpoenaed financial institution data allegedly “revealing Hunter Biden’s enterprise entity, Owasco PC, made direct month-to-month funds to Joe Biden.” The assertion touted that the committee had discovered 20 shell corporations and “uncovered how the Bidens and their associates raked in over $24 million {dollars} between 2015 and 2019 by promoting Joe Biden as ‘the model.’ The announcement additionally claimed that the monetary data have been proof Hunter Biden’s enterprise account, Owasco PC, had obtained funds from “Chinese language-state linked corporations and different overseas nationals and firms” and accused Joe Biden of benefitting “from his household’s affect peddling schemes.”
Nonetheless, inside a couple of hours of the announcement, the Washington Post debunked the claims. Primarily based on an e-mail verified by the publication, the Put up discovered that the three transfers of $1,380 in 2018 (when Joe Biden was not in political workplace) have been really repayments Hunter had made to his father for a 2018 Ford Raptor truck.
Hunter Biden’s legal professional Abbe Lowell took intention at Comer’s try to “revive his sham of an investigation,” including, “The reality is Hunter’s father helped him when he was struggling financially as a consequence of his habit and couldn’t safe credit score to finance a truck. When Hunter was in a position to, he paid his father again and took over the funds himself.”
In accordance with the e-mail verified by the Put up, different bills listed included funds for medical health insurance, school and highschool tuition for Hunter Biden’s kids, the Yale Membership, and a storage unit.
Hunter Biden has lengthy been a goal of Republican efforts to dig up filth on President Biden. The Oversight Committee claims Biden used his father’s place as vp within the Obama administration, in addition to his father’s position as president, to safe favorable monetary offers for himself and his household. These allegations stay unproven.
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