Republican lawmakers will take control of the House of Representatives on Jan. 3. That means that, among many other things, they will take control of the House’s investigative committees and subcommittees. GOP leaders have already said they plan to probe the Biden administration’s disastrous policy on the U.S.-Mexico border, the disastrous withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, the disastrous failure to stop the flow of fentanyl into the U.S., and more.
There is clearly a lot to investigate. But the topic that will receive the most attention in the media and the political conversation will be the investigation into the business dealings of the Biden family — Joe, Hunter and Jim Biden. “Committee Republicans have spoken with multiple whistleblowers from numerous schemes involving the Biden family, reviewed Hunter Biden’s laptop, and received documents of previously unknown transactions,” House Oversight Committee chairman-to-be Rep. James Comer told a news conference on Nov. 17. “What we found are business plans aimed at targets around the world based on influence peddling, including with people closely tied to foreign governments like China and Russia.” The Bidens, Comer said, “flourished and became millionaires by simply offering access to ‘The Family.'”
Press coverage of the investigation will likely fall into two categories. The first will focus on traditional coverage of what the committee discovers, what witnesses tell investigators, what documents are involved, etc. The second will ignore those developments or attack the investigation itself.
Right now, Comer is working hard to convince the public that his probe will be a Joe Biden investigation — that is, an investigation into the actions of the president of the United States — and not a Hunter Biden investigation. “In 2019, shortly after announcing his campaign for president, Joe Biden told the American people he had nothing to do with and never had conversations with his family about their business deals,” Comer said on Nov. 17. “That was a lie. Whistleblowers describe President Biden as ‘chairman of the board’ for these businesses. He personally participated in meetings and phone calls. Documents show that he was a ‘partner’ with access to an office. To be clear: Joe Biden is the ‘Big Guy.'” That last was a reference to Hunter Biden’s repeated references to his father as the “Big Guy.” Hunter’s business partners used the phrase, too; one of them wrote that in a 2017 Chinese energy deal, 10% of the money would be “held by H for the big guy.”
Republicans know that for many years, Joe Biden, who served in the U.S. Senate from 1973 to 2009, described himself as “the poorest man in Congress.” “I entered as one of the poorest men in Congress, left one of the poorest men in government, in Congress and as vice president,” Biden said when he was running for president in 2019. By that, what Biden really meant was that he was one of the most ethical men in Congress — that, unlike some others, he did not use his office to cash in. Now, GOP investigators want to see if Biden benefited from his son’s shadowy income stream, which of course was made possible by Hunter Biden cashing in on his father’s name.
Comer wants to investigate all that. But the more Comer talks about substance — deals, business partners, money, bank records — the more Democrats and their allies in the political and journalism worlds accuse Republicans of beating a dead horse, or being obsessed with the pornography that the cocaine-addicted Hunter Biden made and kept on his laptop. And now, the Washington Post reports that a number of wealthy Biden supporters are planning an assault against the investigators and witnesses in the Hunter Biden probe. They are assembling what the Post calls a “sprawling infrastructure” that is “rapidly, almost frantically assembling to combat Republicans’ plans to turn Hunter Biden into a major news story when the GOP takes over the House next year.”
The pro-Hunter group includes Kevin Morris, a high-powered entertainment attorney in Hollywood who at some point became friends with Hunter Biden and is now paying Hunter’s back taxes and monthly bills. Morris reportedly paid Hunter Biden’s $2 million back taxes bill. He reportedly pays his friend’s rent, too — around $20,000 a month.
Morris reportedly is advising his friend and beneficiary to get tough with those Republicans who want to delve into the connection between Hunter Biden’s highly lucrative business deals and Hunter Biden’s father. According to the Post, Morris is advocating that Hunter file defamation suits against Fox News, against President Trump’s son Eric, and against Rudy Giuliani. Morris also, according to the Post, wants “extensive research,” which means dirt-digging, on “two potential witnesses against Hunter Biden — a spurned business partner named Tony Bobulinski and a computer repairman named John Paul Mac Isaac.” It was Mac Isaac to whom Hunter took his laptop for repair and then apparently forgot what he had done with it.
Morris is joined in advocating an aggressive strategy by David Brock, who in the 1990s styled himself a “right-wing hitman” writing articles attacking Bill and Hillary Clinton. Then Brock changed sides, trying to ingratiate himself with the very people he had earlier attacked. The right-wing hitman became a left-wing hitman, not to mention a prolific fundraiser. Now, Brock has formed a new group, Facts First USA, to fight Republicans who want to investigate Hunter Biden and other Biden administration topics.
Some Democrats disagree strongly with the aggressive strategy. After all, Hunter Biden is a former drunk and crackhead who made a huge amount of money through questionable business deals in which he sought to cash in on his father’s name and influence. He then blew the money on booze, crack and prostitutes, after which he sought new, and even shadier, ways to further cash in on his father’s name and influence. This was no youthful indiscretion; Hunter Biden is 52 years old and has only been off drugs for a couple of years.
It’s not a heartwarming American story. “No one thinks this strategy of putting Hunter Biden front and center is smart,” one Democrat involved in the larger defense effort told the Post. “No one, including the White House, thinks this is a smart strategy.” The more cautious Democrats in the Hunter Biden defense effort want to argue that he is “clearly a private citizen and an inappropriate target for Congress to investigate,” according to the Post, and that “Republicans are more concerned with pursuing conspiracies than solving the country’s problems.”
That’s where Comer’s investigation plan comes in. He appears to be focused like a laser beam on the Joe Biden angle of the Hunter Biden story. He wants to get copies of “suspicious activity reports” that banks filed about various Hunter Biden transactions. He wants to delineate what he believes are the extensive financial ties between Hunter and Joe Biden, as well as the president’s brother Jim Biden, who was also in on the business. “We are focused on the bank records,” he said on Nov. 17. “The most important thing for us, right now, is to get those bank records.”
In other words, it’s all about Joe Biden’s business. To hear Comer talk, Hunter Biden is almost a bit player in the Hunter Biden investigation. “We’re not trying to prove Hunter Biden is a bad actor,” Comer said. “He is. If anybody wants to disagree with that, then there’s nothing we have to talk about. Our investigation is about Joe Biden.”
A tale of two sons.
One son brokered a mideast peace deal, the “Abraham Accords” designed to normalize Israel’s standing in the area, while also boxing in a bellicose Iran.
The other son financed a Caligula life-style with multiple scams at the expense of our national security. The brazen pay-for-access of selling worthless paintings is icing on the cake.
Which son is hated by the press, and which son does the press chronically clean up after? (It’s a rhetorical question.)
And what will be the result of Rep Comer’s investigation? One could hope for a special prosecutor and articles of impeachment against Joe Biden. More likely would be nothing, but embarrassing press. Articles of impeachment for influence peddling, racketeering, et al. would be dead on arrival in the Senate. And might not even make it out of the House.
“Probe”. That’s all they ever do. No one ever goes to the gallows because no truth can ever be found in their “probe”. Why are the US citizens sitting idly by for this for the last 100 years? I guess it like boiling a frog..
Why can’t Republicans also commence to prosecute Hillary & Co. for the most brazen example of blaming the victim of her own diabolical lies? It’s the biggest political crime in US history. The cost to the US and the harm done to Trump’s presidency still reverberate in the rabid attempts to silence and jail him.
comer is a RINO. McCarthy is useless. The republicans will do nothing. Again. And we will continue to vote for the same idiots. We are getting what we deserve
Perhaps people don’t vote for the same idiots. Its just the vote counters just love the same idiots . 😉
They will hold a few hearings and this will all go away quietly by early summer.
And America will ooohh and ahhhh when Hunter is selected to appear on Dancing With the Stars.
Not always. Ken Starr got 13 convictions, including the governor of Arkansas, during White Water (and while facing heavy head-winds from the press.)
The courtier press never really reported on it. That is something you can always rely on – the DNC stenographers to spike a story they don’t like, or slander conservatives.
Are they rotting in prison?
“THE FBI, DOJ, MSM look at Trump under an ELECTRON MICROSCOPE while they look at The Biden’s, Clinton’s, Democrats, with a BACKWARDS HUBBLE TELESCOPE!”
ALL OF THEM enacted THE SCHULTZ PLAN when any corruption/crime/scandal issue on any Democrat was being exposed: “I SEE NOTHING! I HEAR NOTHING! I SAY NOTHING! I KNOW NOTHING!” (It worked eight years for Obama! When Obama was questioned about an issue, he’d say, “I just read that in the paper this morning.” BBBBBSSSS! Newspaper news in a day old and a President needs up to minute updates! He’d laugh. The MSM would laugh. It’s over…. move on.)
THE FBI AND DOJ ARE NOW CRIMINAL ORGANIZATIONS! LOOK WHAT THEY DID AND ALLOWED WHEN IT CAME TO TRUMP!
WHO DO YOU GO TO INVESTIGATE THE INVESTIGATORS?
The military. There will never be convictions coming through the DOJ.
We aren’t going to vote our way out of this.. Other measures will have to taken or the Republic is no more.
A national leader in needed but he hasn’t appeared yet.
“THE FBI, DOJ, MSM look at Trump under an ELECTRON MICROSCOPE while they look at The Biden’s, Clinton’s, Democrats, with a BACKWARDS HUBBLE TELESCOPE!”
ALL OF THEM enacted THE SCHULTZ PLAN when any corruption/crime/scandal issue on any Democrat was being exposed: “I SEE NOTHING! I HEAR NOTHING! I SAY NOTHING! I KNOW NOTHING!” (It worked eight years for Obama! When Obama was questioned about an issue, he’d say, “I just read that in the paper this morning.” BBBBBSSSS! Newspaper news in a day old and a President needs up to minute updates! He’d laugh. The MSM would laugh. It’s over…. move on.)
THE FBI AND DOJ ARE NOW CRIMINAL ORGANIZATIONS! LOOK WHAT THEY DID AND ALLOWED WHEN IT CAME TO TRUMP!
WHO DO YOU GO TO TO INVESTIGATE THE INVESTIGATORS?
*Narrator voice*
Hunter Biden is not off drugs
Are the Democrats telling the RINOs they’re planning on having Michelle Obama run for president and they need Joe Dirt dispatched pronto?
Because that’s the only way the RINOs would seek to destroy Joe Dirt, at the request of and with permission of the RINOs’ rulers — the Democrats.
They should have kept their mouths shut and done a stealth investigation and attack before the enemy knew what hit them.
Now, even more records will disappear, more witnesses will ‘forget’ everything and nothing will happen to this filth.
The best idea would have been to grab all the major players from the clinton’s onward, and string them up from the nearest bunch of trees.
I want it to be so smelly, so tawdry, so compelling that this celebration of depravity and corruption is as foremost in the public consciousness as the song Rubber Ducky was on top forty radio in the summer of 1970.
I want the ubiquity of this nightmare to fuel the extirpation of the corrupt soles responsible.
If we can’t [ or won’t ] hang them, at least expose them, shame them and shun them from public life.
Make the Biden name synonymous with offal.
“Republicans are more concerned with pursuing conspiracies than solving the country’s problems.”
Uhh, no, Republicans are concerned with solving the country’s problems by ridding the country of corrupt Democrats.
If this involved Trump or someone in his family the Media Vultures and Sharks would have a regular feeding frenzy but its Bidens kids so we hear crickets