The White Home condemned Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) for his “extremely ugly and inappropriate” remarks suggesting President Joe Biden’s late son, Beau Biden, ought to have been indicted when he was alive.
Throughout Monday’s episode of the right-wing podcast “The Nice America Present with Lou Dobbs,” Comer criticized U.S. Lawyer David Weiss, who's at present overseeing the federal probe into Hunter Biden, for not indicting Beau Biden throughout a probe into unlawful contributions to his father’s marketing campaign over a decade in the past.
In 2012, Weiss prosecuted Christopher Tigani, a Biden donor who “illegally contributed $72,700 to [Biden’s presidential] marketing campaign in 2007,” and reimbursed his staff for donations made of their title.
Beau Biden, who was then Delaware’s lawyer normal, recused himself from the probe, and in response to The Washington Submit, no credible proof was discovered indicating that the Bidens had prior data of Tigani’s marketing campaign fraud.
However Comer asserted on the podcast that Beau Biden, who died of mind most cancers in 2015 at age 46, was concerned.
“This U.S. lawyer … had a chance to go after the Bidens years in the past. Actually, it was Beau Biden, the president’s different son, that was concerned in some marketing campaign donations from an individual that obtained indicted as nicely,” Comer, who chairs the Home Oversight and Accountability Committee, mentioned on the podcast, the Submit reported.
He continued: “However, you recognize, nothing ever occurred. So I don’t know a lot about this U.S. lawyer [Weiss] apart from he’s had a chance to analyze the Bidens earlier than and he selected to not. Everyone knows that he’s simply been silent for a very long time.”
When requested concerning the remarks throughout Wednesday’s press briefing, White Home press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre mentioned,“It says lots concerning the chairman, which isn't good, by the way in which.”
“To make the assertion that he did is extremely ugly and inappropriate,” she added.
“As an alternative of Home Republicans specializing in attacking the president and his household, why don’t they really deal with what the American individuals put them in workplace to do, which is to ship for them, which is to truly work with their colleagues … to truly put forth items of laws or put forth insurance policies that’s going to make a distinction of their lives,” Jean-Pierre continued.
Joe Biden has repeatedly introduced up Beau all through his presidency. Most not too long ago, Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) heckled Biden throughout his State of the Union handle final 12 months after he talked about his son’s loss of life whereas referencing veterans’ well being.
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